LONDON (UK) – Britain will on Wednesday urge for a United Nations resolution, which will help in negotiating ceasefires so that people living in conflict zones can be inoculated against COVID-19. It said member states have a moral obligation to protect the vulnerable.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab will chair a virtual meeting of the UN Security Council on Wednesday to talk about the threat in front of more than 160 million people living in areas, where life is disrupted by instability and conflict, such as Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia.
“We have a moral duty to act, and a strategic necessity to come together to defeat this virus,” Raab said in a statement.
He will also push for UN members to come together, so as to get equitable access to vaccines. Raab added that new virus variants will be stay put in places where people have not been inoculated.
Mexico is also likely to increase concerns about uneven access to vaccines globally. Britain says it has contributed to this cause by giving 548 million pounds ($762 million) so as to aid developing countries through the sharing initiative COVAX.
Tensions that have been persisting between China and former US President Donald Trump’s administration for long touched saturation point at the United Nations, with regard to the pandemic. It highlighted Beijing’s attempt for exercising more multilateral influence in a challenge to Washington’s traditional leadership.