World leaders are coming to the United Nations with a focus on epidemics and climate change
As the Corona virus continues to spread amid the illicit distribution of the vaccine, about a third of the 193 UN member states plan to send the video to the summit, but presidents, prime ministers, told IRNA on Sunday. And foreign ministers from other countries will travel to the United States to attend.
The United States has tried to dissuade world leaders from traveling to New York so that the UN General Assembly does not become an event for the spread of the disease, although US President Joe Biden has made his first appearance at the UN since taking office. Gives a speech.
A so-called UN honorary system means that anyone who enters the Assembly Hall actually declares that they have been vaccinated, although there is no need to provide proof.
The system fails when the Brazilian leader becomes the first country to address the UN General Assembly. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is skeptical of the vaccine, said last week that he did not need to be vaccinated because he was safe after catching Covid-19.
New York, meanwhile, has deployed a van to the United Nations to provide free trials and free Johnson & Johnson vaccines.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told Reuters that the debate over how many traveling diplomats might be safe shows how significant vaccination inequality is.
He is working to implement a global program to vaccinate 70% of the world’s population by the first half of next year.
Of the 5.7 billion doses of corona vaccine distributed worldwide, only 2% has reached Africa.
Biden is hosting a virtual meeting from Washington with global leaders and executives on Wednesday aimed at boosting vaccine distribution around the world.
Biden stays in New York for just 24 hours, meets with Guterres on Monday, and delivers his first speech to the United Nations on Tuesday, immediately after Bolsonaro, in a sign of US concern over the UN General Assembly in the midst of the Covend-19 outbreak. Slowly
Linda Thomas Greenfield, her UN envoy, said Biden was addressing key priorities, including ending the Covid-19 epidemic, tackling climate change and defending human rights, democracy and the rule of law.
Due to the epidemic, delegations to the United Nations are few in number, and most meetings on the sidelines of the summit are limited to virtual meetings or a combination of virtual and face-to-face meetings.
Among other topics the participating ministers are expected to discuss this week is Afghanistan and Iran.
But before the annual speeches begin, Guttierez and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson begin the week with a summit on Monday to try to save the Glasgow climate summit from defeat.
The goal of holding the 26th UN Climate Summit in Glasgow is to attract more ambitious climate action and more money from participants from all over, as scientists warn that global warming is dangerously approaching out of control. Is the world.
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