Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday stressed coordinated efforts to boost global economic recovery and proposed a six-point Global Vaccine Cooperation Action Initiative while addressing the 16th Group of 20 (G20) Leaders' Summit via video link on Saturday, Global Times reports.
Experts said his speech focused on wellbeing and growth of developing countries and building a community with a shared future for mankind through supporting true multilateralism, and stabilizing global supply chain amid US' destruction to international order.
Solidarity and cooperation are the most powerful weapons to fight the pandemic. Stigmatization of the COVID-19 virus and politicization of tracing its origins run counter to the spirit of solidarity against the pandemic, Xi said, calling on the international community to work in concert to confront and defeat the pandemic by taking a science-based approach.
"We need to step up cooperation on prevention, control, diagnosis and treatment, and enhance preparedness for major public health emergencies," he said.
Addressing the G20 Leaders' Summit, Xi proposed a six-point Global Vaccine Cooperation Action Initiative. As part of the Initiative, Xi proposed to strengthen vaccine R&D cooperation and support vaccine companies in conducting joint R&D and production with developing countries.
He called the G20 leaders to uphold equality and justice and provide more vaccines to developing countries to meet the global vaccination target for 2022 set by the WHO, support the World Trade Organization (WTO) in making an early decision on waiving intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines, and encourage vaccine companies to transfer technology to developing countries.
