The president of the European council, Charles Michel, called this Saturday to strengthen the World Health Organization (WHO) and to guarantee “equitable” access to vaccines, during a meeting with the director general of that UN agency, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
The meeting took place on the margins of the G20 summit that is being held this weekend in Rome.
“Continuing our close cooperation in the G20 with Dr. Tedros on the architecture of global health and the international treaty on pandemics. We must draw lessons from the COVID-19 crisis and strengthen WHO, while ensuring equitable access to vaccines, ”Michel wrote on Twitter.
In another message on the same social network, he assured that the G20 summit that begins today is “one of the most important in recent years” and stressed that in the family photo there was a representation of the health workers, doctors and volunteers who have fought and they fight in the front line against the coronavirus pandemic in Italy.
“We have a particular responsibility to shape the post-COVID-19 world and coordinate action on the major challenges in its aftermath,” he said.
The European Union wants the G20 summit to serve to advance the goal of vaccinating 70% of the planet’s population against COVID by the middle of next year and achieving new CO2 reduction targets in the same decade.
“We want 70% of the world’s population vaccinated by the middle of next year,” the president of the European Commission (EC), Ursula von der Leyen, said at a press conference on Thursday, referring to the summit.
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