COVID-19 | APEC leaders agree to cooperate on global vaccine push eNCA
The unprecedented online talks involving heads of state from the 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group was called at short notice by New ZealandWELLINGTON - Pacific Rim leaders vowed to ramp up the production and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines Friday at an emergency virtual meeting to develop an action plan that will contain the global pandemic.
"For the first time in APEC's history, leaders have come together for an extraordinary meeting focused exclusively on Covid-19 and how our region can navigate out of the worst health and economic crisis in living memory," she said. Xi said China had already supplied developing countries with more than 500 million Covid-19 vaccine doses.
"We need to suppress transmission and do everything we can to get as many people vaccinated as soon as possible," she said.The New Zealand leader signalled that APEC nations would be looking at digital documentation to streamline travel and trade across international borders without compromising pandemic-related health safeguards.
The virtual meeting brought together world leaders such as Russian President Vladimir Putin, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Australia's Scott Morrison and Justin Trudeau of Canada.
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