Imran urges D-8 members to push back against vax nationalism

TIL Desk/World/Islamabad/ Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said that members of the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation should push back against vaccine nationalism and undue export restrictions to let Covid-19 vaccine reach equally to all countries of the world.

Addressing the 10th D-8 Summit, hosted in virtual format on Thursday, Khan said the D-8 should call for Covid-19 vaccine to be treated as a global public good, ensure equity, affordability, enhanced production and timely supply to save lives, according to the Prime Minister’s Office.

The D-8 is an organization for the development of cooperation among the following countries: Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Turkey. The 10th summit was hosted by Bangladesh under the theme of “Partnership for a Transformative World: Harnessing the Power of Youth and Technology”.

The Prime Minister said the contemporary global challenges of a changing world are a moving target and no single country can address these complexities in isolation, calling upon D-8 members to mobilise financing and resources to recover robustly from the economic and health crises induced by the pandemic.