- Prime Minister Boris Johnson has joined more than 20 world leaders in calling for a new global settlement to help the world prepare for future pandemics.
- In a newspaper article the leaders, including the German chancellor and French president, said Covid posed the biggest challenge since World War Two.
- The pandemic has shown “nobody is safe until everyone is safe”, they said.
- The Covid-19 pandemic has been a stark and painful reminder that nobody is safe until everyone is safe
A recent news article published in the BBC reveals that world leaders call for an international treaty to fight Covid 19.
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Writing in the Daily Telegraph and publications such as Le Monde in France and El Pais in Spain, the 24 leaders argue that a treaty similar to that reached in the wake of World War Two is needed to build cross-border cooperation.
The signatories, who include the head of the World Health Organization, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said: “At that time, following the devastation of two world wars, political leaders came together to forge the multilateral system”.
Aims of the Treaty
- To bring countries together
- To dispel the temptations of isolationism and nationalism
- To address the challenges that could only be achieved together in the spirit of solidarity and co-operation – namely peace, prosperity, health and security.
France’s President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the other leaders said that in the same spirit, countries must now “be better prepared to predict, prevent, detect, assess and effectively respond to pandemics in a highly co-ordinated fashion”.
Call for treaty on future pandemics
Prime Minister Boris Johnson joins more than 20 world leaders in calling for a new global settlement to help the world prepare for future pandemics.
In an article for newspapers around the world, leaders including President Emmanuel Macron of France and German Chancellor Angela Merkel say Covid has posed the biggest challenge since World War Two.
Another pandemic or health crisis is a matter of “not if, but when”, they say. And the pandemic has shown that “nobody is safe until everyone is safe”.
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Source : BBC
