At the G-20, Felipe Solá called for “mass vaccination to be guaranteed” in the world

In his speech at the meeting of foreign ministers of G-20 countries in Italy, Foreign Minister Felipe Solá called for “strengthen cooperation and solidarity to achieve an inclusive and sustainable post-COVID-19 recovery ”.

In his speech in the Italian town of Matera – declared a World Heritage Site for its cave houses carved into the rock and hit this Tuesday by an asphyxiating heatwave – Solá called on the countries of the Group to “redouble efforts to ensure mass immunization all over the world, and promote voluntary licensing agreements, which allow the transfer of knowledge and technologies necessary for the production of vaccines on all continents ”.

In his remarks at Palazzo Lanfranchi, one of the historic buildings of this town in the Basilicata region, in the south of the peninsula, Solá asked that they mobilize “the necessary financial resources develop and strengthen critical health infrastructure, particularly in developing countries ”.

“We need a consensual global growth plan that includes coordinated monetary and fiscal interventions to avoid an uneven and unbalanced recovery, and whate guarantee a future with more equity“Solá told his peers at the meeting called for the G-20 Heads of State Summit to be held this year also in Italy.

In her speech, Solá also added: “We have the opportunity to create a better economy that generates less carbon, less inequality and that offers digital access and new technologies to all. The G20 must contribute to this, through concrete and shared political actions ”.

On the way up, the first face-to-face after a year and a half of the pandemic, in the presence of a hundred delegations, international organizations and institutions, as well as representatives of Africa, a continent severely affected by poverty and the spread of the virus. Strictly speaking, the Summit is dedicated to the fight against the health and socio-economic consequences of the pandemic on the African continent.