Russia offers its Covid-19 vaccine to all partners in UN, G20 - PM Mishustin
MOSCOW. May 14 (Interfax) - Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has confirmed Russia's offer to supply its Covid-19 vaccine to partners within the United Nations, the G20, BRICS, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and help them conduct mass vaccination.
"The pandemic of the coronavirus infection has reaffirmed the great importance of joint coordinated steps by all member states of the organization. Russia became the world's first country to develop and register a coronavirus vaccine, and we have offered it to all partners within the UN, the G20, BRICS, and the SCO and have proposed establishing constructive interaction in this issue and helping them carry out mass vaccination," Mishustin said at a meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
Alongside its work to protect people's life and health, the UN should unite the international community's efforts to overcome the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, including economic consequences, he said.
Guterres, in turn, thanked Mishustin for the Russian government's efforts to counter Covid-19.