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Indian diplomacy will have to handle the fallout of the vaccine collapse and bio-research regulations Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s words on Buddha Purnima, that in times to come the planet will remember events as either “pre-Covid or post-Covid” could not hold truer than for India’s diplomatic structure worldwide. In the past month, the focus for the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and Missions abroad has shifted. While the focus in 2020, during the first wave of the pandemic, was on coordinating exports of COVID-19 medicines, flights to repatriate Indians abroad (the ‘Vande Bharat Mission’) after the lockdown, and then exporting vaccines worldwide (‘Vaccine Maitri’), after the second wave, Covid Diplomacy 2.0 has a different order of tasks, both in the immediate and the long term. ....
Quad To Harness India s Vaccine Manufacturing Prowess For Massive Covid Diplomacy Push In Indo-Pacific Region And Beyond by Swarajya Staff - Mar 13, 2021 05:33 AM Leaders of Quad countries. The leaders at the Quad summit made a commitment on Friday (12 March) to harness India s manufacturing prowess for a massive vaccine diplomacy project to deliver 1 billion doses to the Indo-Pacific region and beyond as the four-nation group eyes broader agenda. India s vaccine development and manufacturing capabilities put it in the driver s seat in the project that is of imminent importance to the Quad. United in our fight against COVID-19, we launched a landmark Quad partnership to ensure accessibility of safe COVID-19 vaccines. India s formidable vaccine production capacity will be expanded with support from Japan, US & Australia to assist countries in the Indo-Pacific region, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a tweet. ....
https://sputniknews.com/india/202103081082284466-no-competition-between-india-china-in-supplying-covid-jabs-to-other-countries-ex-foreign-secretary/ Nearly 190 countries across the world will be requiring over two billion COVID vaccine doses by the end of 2021, as per the vaccine alliance GAVI. A former Indian diplomat says that India and China, two big exporters of COVID vaccines, must collaborate in helping other countries access the COVID jab, despite their ongoing border differences. Former Indian Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal has said the so-called race between India and China to supply COVID jabs to other countries is not the “correct” way to look at things. He said this while pointing out that even the joint production capacity of the two Asian powerhouses wouldn’t be enough to meet the global demand for inoculation towards the end of 2021. ....
Ram Nath Kovind on Vaccine Diplomacy, Farmers Protests, China: Highlights from President s Speech FOLLOW US ON: As the Budget Session 2021 commenced on Friday, President Ram Nath Kovind, while addressing both houses of the Parliament, spoke on a range of issues from the Republic Day afters protests to the steps the government has taken to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. While several opposition parties including the Congress, TMC, NCP and Shiv Sena, boycotted the President s joint address, Kovind also highlighted the need to for a joint session of the Parliament. RELATED NEWS On the Republic Day protests Calling the incidents from Republic Day unfortunate, he spoke about lessons on law and order from the Constitution. The insult of the holy day like the tricolor and the Republic Day happened in the past is very unfortunate. The Constitution that gives us the right to freedom of expression, the same constitution teaches us that law ....