The Foreign Minister says that PM’s vision has made the country’s goodwill meaningful.
Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar said on Wednesday that over the years, India has developed the reputation of being the first and reliable respondent in the region, stating that the country provided “Made in India” vaccines for 72 countries from COVID-19 Were . The drugs have been supplied to 150 countries, 82 of them in the form of grants.
In a statement in Parliament on the Vaccine Friendship Initiative, Shri Jaishankar said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision has provided a comprehensive framework to make the country’s goodwill meaningful in terms of practical initiatives and activities.
“We have already seen that in our humanitarian aid and disaster responses, whether in Yemen and Nepal or in Mozambique and Fiji. As a result, over the years, India has developed the reputation of being the first and reliable respondent in the region. We saw that in important negotiations of global importance like the Paris Agreement, where we had an important role, ”he said.
The minister said that the supply of vaccines abroad is based on an assessment of adequate availability at home. Citing initiatives such as the International Solar Alliance or the Coalition for Disaster Resistant Structure, Mr. Jaishankar said that when it arrived in Africa, India had greatly increased its level of cooperation at the 2015 IAFS-3 Summit.
From the Caribbean to the Pacific Islands, the message is clear that the Prime Minister of India has a desire not only to engage them personally, but also to support them with concrete development programs. This is the driving force of vaccine friendship as an approach to human-centered global collaboration, ”he said.
Under Mr. Modi’s leadership, India maintained low mortality and high recovery rates during the epidemic, the minister said that the country’s capabilities also had an external beneficial impact, meeting the spiking requirements of hydroxychloroquine, paracetamol and other relevant drugs in India The world with doing.
Mr. Jaishankar said that the Prime Minister had announced at his virtual address to the United Nations General Assembly in September 2020 that India’s vaccine production and distribution capacity would be used to help all humanity in fighting the crisis. He said that on 15 March last year, Mr. Modi held a meeting of the Heads of Government of SAARC countries to give a regional response. “The creation of a SAARC COVID-19 fund supporting initial exchanges on this issue within the region was an important outcome.”
During the pandemic, India has provided 14 online training and capacity building courses to 1,131 professional participants from 47 countries along with institutions like AIIMS and PGI-Chandigarh. While a special course was organized in Bangla for Bangladeshi professionals, another was operated by the Armed Forces Medical Service for military doctors in South-East Asia.
“The House must recognize the huge sentiment for India that our initiative has generated. Those sentiments have naturally been expressed by leaders and prominent personalities of many countries. But more than that, our ambassadors feel the warmth of ordinary people around the world for India every day. In the most serious sense, it is people-centered diplomacy at work, ”he said.
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