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A group of 24 world leaders, including Pedro Sánchez, demand an international anti-pandemic pact

In front of the constants international tensions over the distribution of vaccines, a group of international leaders, including Spanish President Pedro Sánchez, have signed an article in which they are committed to taking steps towards a new era founded on principles such as solidarity and cooperation.

A total of 24 world leaders such as WHO Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson or German Chancellor Angela Merkel, have signed an article in which They call for an international pandemic treaty.

The letter signed by the leaders appears this Tuesday in newspapers such as Telegraph in the United Kingdom, The world in France and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Germany.

Leaders describe the pandemic as “the greatest challenge for the world community since the 1940s” and they say a global alliance like the one signed after 1945 is needed to build cross-border cooperation before the next international health crisis.

There will be other pandemics and other major health emergencies. No government or multilateral body can tackle this threat alone, “wrote the leaders in a joint opinion piece in major newspapers.

Between the signers there are the presidents of Fiji, Portugal, Romania, the United Kingdom, Rwanda, Kenya, France, Germany, Greece, Korea, Chile, Costa Rica, Albania, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, Netherlands, Tunisia, Senegal, Spain, Norway, Serbia, Indonesia, Ukraine and WHO.

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