06/29/2021 7:41 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 06/29/2021 7:41 PM
In his speech at the meeting of Foreign Ministers of the G-20 countries, in Italy, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Felipe Solá, called for “
strengthening
international
cooperation and solidarity
to achieve an inclusive and sustainable recovery post-COVID-19 ”.
In his speech in the Italian city of Matera - declared a World Heritage Site for its cave houses carved out of the rock and hit this Tuesday by a suffocating heat wave - Solá called on the countries of the Group to "
redouble their efforts to guarantee the mass vaccination
throughout the world, and
promote voluntary licensing agreements
that allow the transfer of knowledge and technologies necessary to produce vaccines on all continents ”.
In his words delivered at Palazzo Lanfranchi, one of the historic buildings of that city in the region of Basilicata, in the south of the peninsula, Solá asked that “
the necessary financial resources
be mobilized
to develop and strengthen critical health infrastructures, especially in developing countries ”.
"We need a consensual global growth plan that includes coordinated monetary and fiscal interventions to avoid an uneven and unbalanced recovery, and that
guarantees a future with greater equity,
" Solá said before his peers at the meeting convened in preparation for the Chiefs' summit. State of the G-20 that will be held this year also in Italy.
In his speech, Solá also added: “We have the opportunity to create a better economy that generates less carbon, less inequality, and provides digital access and new technologies for all.
The G20 must contribute to this, through concrete and shared political actions ”.
The summit,
the first in person after a year and a half of the pandemic
, was attended by a hundred delegations, organizations and international institutions, as well as representatives from Africa, a continent seriously affected by poverty and the spread of the virus.
Strictly speaking, the Summit is dedicated to addressing the health and socioeconomic consequences of the pandemic on the African continent.