Joe Biden is set to convene a virtual summit of world leaders and global health officials to defeat COVID-19 on Wednesday, September 22.
was said to have received an invitation to the virtual summit last week but does not plan to participate, his press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters, according to state-owned news agency RIA.
Russian President Vladimir Putin greets President Joe Biden during the U.S. - Russia Summit 2021 at the La Grange Villa near the Geneva Lake, on June 16, 2021 in Geneva, Switzerland.Participants will be asked to commit to"a higher level of ambition" across four themes, including vaccinating the world by enhancing equitable access to vaccines and saving lives by solving the oxygen crisis, and making tests, therapeutics and PPE more available.
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