External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will visit the US within the coming week from May 24 to May 28. The official announcement was made by Ministry of External Affairs on Friday.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will visit the US within the coming week from May 24 to May 28. The official announcement was made by Ministry of External Affairs on Friday.
(*28*) visit will most definitely revolve round vaccine procurement. India is engaged in talks with varied US entitities concerned in Covid vaccines manufacturing and is wanting ahead to procuring and subsequently producing these vaccines.Â
The situation of vaccine procurement is anticipated to be a key agenda merchandise throughout (*28*) interplay with US management and different stakeholders. The US has already introduced that it’s going to distribute 80 million vaccines from its stockpile to nations in want.
As India is struck badly by the second wave, so efforts of New Delhi can be to search for tie-ups with vaccine builders to produce in India.
US has a stockpile of 60 million AstraZeneca vaccine and likewise Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccines.Â
US is taking part in a lead function in aiding India in combating towards COVID 19. It has already offered oxygen crops, concentrators, vital medicines like Remdesivir and likewise uncooked supplies for vaccine producer Serum Institute which is manufacturing Covishield.Â
US can also be backing India sponsored proposal on TRIPS waiver on the WTO. The TRIPS waiver goals to improve world vaccine manufacturing so as to tackle the problem of vaccinating the poorest of the poor and save lives.Â
EAM Jaishankar met his US Counterpart Antony Blinken in early May in London throughout G7 Foreign Ministers assembly.Â
(With ANI Inputs)
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