🇬🇧 United Kingdom - Prime Minister Addresses General Debate, 75th Session

Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, addresses the general debate of the 75th Session of the General Assembly of the UN (New York, 22 – 29 September 2020).

In a video message to the General Assembly’s General Debate today (26 Sep), British Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged a 30 percent increase in funding the World Health Organization. He said, “the UK supports the efforts of the World Health Organization and of my friend, Tedros, to explore the aetiology of the disease, because however great the need for reform, the WHO, the World Health Organization, is still the one body that marshals humanity against the legions of disease.”

Prime Minister Boris Johnson stated, “with nearly a million people dead, with colossal economic suffering already inflicted and more to come, there is a moral imperative for humanity to be honest and to reach a joint understanding of how the pandemic began, and how it was able to spread.”

He explained that it is “not because I want to blame any country or government, or to score points. I simply believe – as a former COVID patient – that we all have a right to know, so that we can collectively do our best to prevent a recurrence.”

The British Prime Minister also presented a new global approach to health security based on a five-point plan to protect humanity against another pandemic.
His plan includes a global network of research hubs, more vaccine manufacturing capacity, a global pandemic early warning system and secure supply chains that call for reducing export tariffs imposed at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prime Minister Johnson urged every country to “lift the export controls wherever possible – and agree not to revive them – and cancel any tariffs on the vital tools of our struggle: gloves, protective equipment, thermometers and other COVID-critical products.”

He stated, “the UK will do this as soon as our new independent tariff regime comes into effect on 1st January and I hope others will do the same.”

Prime Minister Johnson’s comments were pre-recorded and aired in the General Assembly Hall as previously agreed by the General Assembly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the inability to gather world leaders in New York as customary, this year’s General Debate will witness the largest-ever participation of heads of states and government in UN history.

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