The Puebla Group, an alliance made up of progressive personalities from 17 countries, requested this week, through a statement, that all nations have universal, immediate and free access to vaccines against Covid-19.
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The Puebla Group statement is the result of a plenary meeting held on January 29, in which the founders of the alliance participated and agreed on “some initiatives around the issue of vaccines” anticovid, as reported on their website.
The Puebla Group, with the signature of several former presidents of the Ibero-American region, in its statement “insists, […], in granting vaccines against Covid-19 the character of universal public good, which would be defined by a condition of free, free and democratic access “.
The communication recalls that its position coincides with its programmatic “Manifesto 2021”, which will be released this week, and reaffirms the request to the G-20 so that “at least 10 percent of the stocks and future deliveries of vaccines be destined to the countries that do not produce them to begin immediately the vaccination of their first line of risk made up of the health personnel who fight against the virus and the population over 80 years old “, he points out.
Later, the Puebla Group states that it accepted “the proposal to open an immediate dialogue with the European Union to stop the proposal of some partners of the Community to restrict, in an arbitrary and inhuman way, the export of vaccines to our countries, including those that had already been agreed through bilateral or multilateral negotiations such as the COVAX mechanism “, coinciding with what was announced by the pro-tempore presidency of Celac this week in relation to the protectionist position of Brussels.
CELAC COMMUNICATION |
The #CELAC expresses its concern about the creation of mechanisms that limit the exports of vaccines and medical supplies to third countries to face the pandemic, such as the one recently created by the European Union.https://t.co/3tYpyhw19E
— PPT_CELAC (@PPT_CELAC)
February 2, 2021
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In this direction, the conclave of personalities from politics and social sciences in the region joins “the proposal of the Mexican government to develop, through a digital platform at Celac, a monitoring and follow-up program on progress and difficulties in the vaccination process that is just beginning in the region “and celebrates, equally” the agreement signed by the governments of Argentina and Mexico with the Astrazeneca company to produce in the region, through a public-private alliance, the Oxford developed vaccine “.
The call of the Puebla Group thus joins the facts by various organizations such as the UN and the WHO to guarantee equitable and universal access to anticovid vaccines.
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