The Diplomat
Spain will host the next High Level Meeting against COVID-19 in September, Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares announced on his Twitter account.
Albares participated in the virtual meeting of foreign ministers of the Covid-19 Global Action Plan, organised on Tuesday by the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, and the Japanese Foreign Minister, Hayashi Yoshimasa.
At the meeting, which was attended by some twenty ministers from different countries and the Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of Spanish diplomacy expressed Spain’s willingness to host the next high-level meeting of the Plan in September.
In addition, Albares announced that Spain will contribute to the International Trust Fund for Pandemic Prevention and Response.
The aim of the Plan is to help coordinate actions and mobilise resources in six priority areas in relation to the global response to EVID-19 to end the pandemic by the end of 2022: getting vaccines into weapons, strengthening supply chain resilience, addressing information gaps, supporting health workers, ensuring the availability of treatments and tests where they are most needed, and strengthening the global health security architecture.
