Covid-19: Macron proposes to transfer 3 to 5% of vaccines to Africa

agrees

I say: 'let's transfer 3% or 5% today of the vaccines we have in stock to Africa'.

This has no impact on the pace of the vaccination strategy (in rich countries).

It does not slow it down a day, given the use of our doses today

It is in the interest of the French and Europeans

I have more than 10 million of our fellow citizens who have families on the other side of the Mediterranean

If we allow the idea to settle that hundreds of millions of vaccines are being made in rich countries and that we do not start in poor countries, it is unsustainable,

It is rather an acceleration of unprecedented global inequalities

it is politically unsustainable in the long term because it is what allows to install a war of influence of vaccines.

And you can clearly see the Chinese strategy, the Russian strategy too

put a very strong pressure

do not play the game of cooperation, the political question of intellectual property will inevitably arise in all our countries

the debate of over-profits made on the scarcity of the vaccine

The objective is to bring on board a maximum of European and non-European partners.

But if everyone is not on board, France will commit

The mechanism for donating doses is open to the Russians and the Chinese.

The Chinese often recall their adherence to multilateralism, they have the opportunity with Covax to prove it, rather than a bilateral approach with a logic of vaccine diplomacy, or even patronage,

the objective of making the vaccine a global public good