Dubai, the United Arab Emirates: Organization 20 of the Summit opened on Saturday with the calls of the maximum hard leaders in the global to jointly hint a path to follow while the cocovio eclipse pandemic -19, transforming IT meetings into a virtual collection of speeches and statements.
In a sign of the time, the classic “family photo” of the leaders of the summit designed numerically and superimposed in a historical site just outside the doors of the Saudi capital, Riad, which would have welcomed the demonstration. The kingdom presided over the G-20 this year.
Pandemia, which has made more than 1. 37 million lives worldwide, presented G -20 to prove how these organizations can facilitate foreign cooperation in crises, but also stressed their deficiencies.
“We have the duty to assume the challenge in combination this summit and give a strong message of hope and comfort,” said Salman King of Saudi Arabia in the opening comments of the summit.
While G-20 countries have contributed billions of dollars to expand a vaccine against the virus, they also basically aimed to secure their own vaccine supplies. Countries such as Britain, the United States, France and Germany — all G-20 member states — have deals negotiated directly with pharmaceutical corporations to source billions of doses, meaning the vast majority of the world’s vaccine source next year is already reserved.
One day before the summit, the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, said that if $ 10 billion had been invested in efforts to expand vaccines, diagnoses and therapies, another $ 28 billion are for mass manufacturing, acquisition and delivery of new COVVI-19 vaccines in the world.
Guterres has called more G-20 nations to register in Covax, a foreign initiative to distribute COVVI-19 vaccines to the countries of the world. The United States under President Trump refused to register.
Pandemia had a giant economy on scale has an effect on countries that are coming and has generated millions in excessive poverty. He also tormented the richest nations in the world, with nine G-20 countries that described the highest international cases for registered COVID-19. The United States, with the maximum sensible of the list, followed India, Brazil, France, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy and Argentina, according to a leader who extends to the Johns Hopkins University.
This year, 3 G-20 leaders at the summit were inflamed with the Coronavirus: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and Trump.
The virus shows no slowdown symptoms, because the main cities of the United States and Europe bring a block and fire. The World Health Organization says that more COVID-19 have been informed in the more than 4 weeks than in the first six months of the pandemic.
The International Labor Organization says that one of 225 million jobs were lost in full-time jobs in the G-20 countries in the third quarter of 2020. The member countries of the G-20 constitute approximately 85% of global economic production and three quarters of foreign trade.
As a component of the summit, seven managers published video messages about “preparation and response of the pandemic. ” The French president, Emmanuel Macron, warned opposite to the demanding situations of obtaining “universal access to physical conditioning technologies opposed to COVID-19”. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, asked to strengthen the World Health and Under pressure organization that pandemic can only succeed if an exhibible vaccine must be had for all nations.
In a video published before the summit, Johnson asked the global leaders to exploit the resources of the richest nations in the global to put an end to the pandemic and combat the replacement of the Covvi-19 climate.
“Our destiny is in the hands of the other,” said Johnson, who plans to attend two virtual occasions in the most sensible while insolving in the house in London after having come into contact with someone who tested positive for Covid-19.
Bolsonaro, who spent months minimizing the severity of the virus, while the deaths temporarily rose to Brazil, stressed in a video message that global leaders “should deal with the aptitude of people and the economy at the same time. “
Trump, who left the virtual summit when other leaders discussed the pandemic, participated in virtual sessions of closed doors, which continue on Sunday. It does not seem that the leaders have abandoned the summit, despite the calls of the rights of defense of rights, the legislators and parliamentarians of the European Union so that the managers Boicoten the demonstration to protest against the registry of human rights in Saudi Arabia and their role in the war in Yemen.
The heads of state of the G-20 met for the last time almost for an emergency assembly in March, the Coronavirus, the immediate propagation of the world. At that time, they swore “to do everything you want to succeed over pandemic. “
Since then, the G-20 nations have agreed to suspend debt invoices for the poorest countries of the global until mid-2011 to allow these nations to concentrate their expenses in physical care and stimulation programs. However, the United Nations Secretary General asked the G-20 to reimburse debt reimbursements until 2021 and that the scope of countries with an intermediate source of needy income is greater.
“I am convinced that the Riad Summit will offer and decisive effects and will lead to the adoption of economic and social policies that will repair hope and insurance to the other people of the world,” said King Salman.
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