Venezuela proposes an Ibero-American social pact on justice and equality

The Minister for Foreign Relations of Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza, proposed this Monday to create an Ibero-American social pact, which is based on justice and equality.

A new Ibero-American social pact is necessary “based on social justice, equality, shared responsibility, and solidarity to confront all problems, including climate change,” said Arreaza.

During a Meeting of Ministers of the Ibero-American Conference, the Venezuelan Chancellor asserted that the situation of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, evidenced the problems that society is experiencing in health matters:

“Covid-19 has revealed many shortcomings of the imposed system. We have seen scrambles between states and governments for medical equipment, for masks; We have seen attacks on the WHO and other multilateral systems,” stressed the diplomat.

It should be noted that, on a global scale, 63,496,964 positive cases have been registered by Covid-19; 1,471,983 deceased and 43,875,219 recovered.

He repudiated the actions promoted by some governments, which underestimated Covid-19, as well as the efficiency of some vaccines against the outbreak; despite the results of clinical trials:

“The irresponsibility of some rulers and governments in underestimating Covid-19 and not paying enough attention to it opened the door to death, to pain,” he said.

The United Kingdom, the United States, China and Russia are working on the development of a vaccine against Covid-19.

All are in phase III of clinical trials, and those developed by Russia, Pfizer / BioNTech, and Moderna are known to have an effectiveness between 92% and 95%.

Similarly, it was urged the creation of a Fund for Rotatory Public Procurement to solve the critical knot in the fulfillment of the 2030 Agenda.

The goal is “For everyone to have access to what is necessary to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (…) It can well feed on 1% of military spending in the world,” he stressed.