'No country is safe until every country is safe': South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa urges temporary waiver of intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines in his UNGA address
In a prerecorded speech on Wednesday, Norway's Prime Minister, Erna Solberg said, "Some countries have vaccinated their populations, and are on the path to recovery. For others, the lack of vaccines and weak health systems pose a serious problem".
Also among them will be Zimbabwe, where the economic ravages of the pandemic have forced some families to abandon the long-held tradition of taking care of their older people. The World Health Organization says only 15 percent of promised donations of vaccines – from rich countries that have access to large quantities of them – have been delivered.
Also on Thursday, foreign ministers are due to ponder climate crisis as a security issue when the Security Council, the UN’s most powerful body, meets in the morning.World leaders made "faint signs of progress" on the financial end of fighting climate crisis in a special United Nations feet-to-the-fire meeting on Monday, but they didn’t commit to more crucial cuts in emissions of the heat-trapping gases that cause global warming.
"We are seeing today unacceptable political practices in the international context that go against the universal commitment to defend at the United Nations charter, including the sovereign right to self-determination."
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