Video message by President Anastasiades on the Paris Peace Discussion board

The hole which will likely be addressed first is the one on well being and financial restoration.  A yr and a half since its onset, the Covid-19 actuality has introduced some main adjustments to our lifestyle.

However as we are attempting to return to normality, well being and financial restoration stay central for a forward-looking agenda.  As a result of with out successfully defending public well being, and a broad-based financial growth around the globe, it will be tough to handle different challenges, such because the fields of employment, training, healthcare, gender equality and so forth.

This hole will be closed solely by capturing classes learnt and embracing the alternatives which have additionally arisen.

On this respect, the next initiatives might be set in place:

We ought to supply extra assist to COVAX, to make its efforts for international equitable entry to vaccines an excellent better success. Failure to take action, would possibly translate to a pandemic with no particular end-horizon.

We should additionally goal to place into apply strong socio-economic restoration plans, at residence and internationally, within the framework of which to realize enterprise pleasant, inexperienced and digital economies, by which nobody is left behind.

On condition that the pandemic has showcased the frequent future of humanity on our planet, we should act upon this premise and attempt to implement the UN Sustainable Improvement Targets to remodel our world for the higher. President Macron couldn’t have put it higher when he stated that “there isn’t any Plan-et B”.

 

For the President’s video message observe the hyperlink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjajriegxek