The issue is at the heart of the summit held in this capital by the so-called Contact Group, created by this group of 120 states in 2020 and chaired by Azerbaijan since October 2019.
According to WHO Director-General Thedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the end of this global health crisis is near and should happen this year, along with reducing the spread of what is known as Mpox (monkeypox), a disease that emerged during the 2022.
Both evils have passed their dangerous phase, and at this time the number of deaths from the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus, which causes Covid-19, is one-fifth of the total recorded last year, the official said.
With the new situation approaching, the Non-Aligned will take the necessary post-pandemic measures, particularly in terms of cooperation and to consolidate the multilateral nature of the confrontation with evil.
The Baku summit must ratify the principles agreed in the declaration adopted by the movement in 2020, which calls for “a global response based on unity, solidarity and renewed multilateral cooperation,” said members of some delegations attending the attended meetings.
Official data from the WHO put the number of positive cases of Covid-19 registered worldwide to date at around 758 million and the number of deaths at almost seven million.
The United States (1,144,000), Brazil (699,000), India (530,800), Russia (396,000) and Mexico (333,000) top the list of countries with the most deaths.
Today’s meeting in this capital was convened by the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, who has headed the NAM since October 2019 and whose three-year term had to be extended to 2023 precisely because of the health crisis.
The rulers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iraq, Libya, Uzbekistan and Turmekistan as well as the vice presidents of Cuba, Gabon and Tanzania and the Prime Minister of Algeria, Aimen Benabderrahmane, are already present for the appointment in Baku.
They will be joined by the heads of the United Nations General Assembly, Csaba Korosi, and the World Tourism Organization, Zurab Pololikashvili, foreign ministers and senior officials from nearly twenty international organizations.
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