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Osinbajo tasks U.S. on Net-zero emissions, access to COVID-19 vaccine
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Professor Yemi Osinbajo
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has urged the U.S. to support the call for a just global transition to Net-zero emissions and lead the effort to ensure easy access to COVID-19 vaccine by all countries.
The vice president also called on U.S. to generally reset its foreign policy agenda with the African continent in ways that would bring about economic prosperity, increased security and improved governance.
Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Monday in Abuja, said the vice president delivered a speech virtually at the 2021 Johns Hopkins University’s African Studies Programme Conference.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said a reviewed partnership between Africa and the United States should be one that helps to improve human security, to avert pandemics, or indeed to tackle the crises caused by climate change.
According to the VP, “so, I think that a resetting of the US policy agenda with Africa should promote a partnership that brings about economic prosperity, increases security, combats disease, improves governance and mitigates the effects of climate change.
“Africa is in many ways the last frontier for economic development and it has the potential to be a global growth pole.”
Continuing, he noted that “the reality however is that Africa still bears a disproportionate burden of communicable diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, and meningitis, to mention but a few.