UN member states demand 'equitable' access to future COVID19 vaccines
UNITED NATIONS, United States - The 193 members of the UN General Assembly on Monday adopted by consensus a resolution that calls for "equitable, efficient and timely" access to any future vaccines developed to fight coronavirus.
The resolution, which was drafted by Mexico and received US support, calls for strengthening the "scientific international cooperation necessary to combat COVID-19 and to bolster coordination," including with the private sector. The resolution asks Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to "to identify and recommend options, including approaches to rapidly scaling manufacturing and strengthening supply chains that promote and ensure fair, transparent, equitable, efficient and timely access to and distribution of preventive tools, laboratory testing, reagents and supporting materials, essential medical supplies, new diagnostics, drugs and future COVID-19 vaccines.
The smaller UN Security Council has still not been able to agree on either of two draft resolutions -- one proposed by Tunisia and the other by France -- that would support the call made by Guterres last month for a global ceasefire as the world fights the pandemic.
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