President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged African and Caribbean heads of state to use their shared heritage to deepen relations.
The summit, he said, was also in a sense fulfilling an important aspiration of the pioneers of pan-Africanism, and, within a contemporary context, of the African Unions’s Agenda 2063., said no country was spared from the devastating human, social, political and economic effects of the pandemic.
Ramaphosa said the pandemic has demonstrated the value and necessity of confronting challenges together. “We share a determination that when it comes to vaccines and other critical health interventions, no region, no country and no person should be left behind. It is therefore a matter of great significance that Caribbean countries have joined the efforts galvanised by the AU on acquiring vaccines,” said Ramaphosa.
agreement at the World Trade Organisation and must continue to lobby for partnerships on licensing and technology transfer with those countries that have the capacity to produce their own vaccines.
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