Calls for intensified international cooperation and multilateral efforts in handling disease outbreaks, including by sharing timely, accurate and transparent information, exchanging epidemiological and clinical data, sharing materials necessary for research and development, and implementing the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005)3 and relevant guidance;
3World Health Organization, document WHA58/2005/REC/1, resolution 58.3, annex.
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Emphasizes the need for the United Nations system, as well as relevant regional and international organizations and financial institutions, to collaborate in order to ensure that the adverse social, economic, humanitarian and financial impacts of COVID-19 are addressed in a timely and non-discriminatory manner;
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Also emphasizes the need for full respect for human rights, and stresses further that there is no place for any form of discrimination, racism and xenophobia in the response to the pandemic;
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Stresses the necessity of urgent short-term actions to step up the global efforts to fight global health crises and pandemics and maintain economic stability, including by taking the following steps:
a
Swift delivery of medical supplies, especially diagnostic tools, treatments, medicines and vaccines;
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Increasing research and development funding for vaccines and medicines, leveraging digital technologies and strengthening scientific international cooperation;
c
Expanding manufacturing capacity to meet the increasing needs for medical supplies and ensuring that these are made widely available, at an affordable price, on an equitable basis, where they are most needed and as quickly as possible;
d
Engaging with the front-line international organizations, notably the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank Group and multilateral and regional development banks, to deploy robust, coherent, coordinated and rapid financial packages to strengthen global financial safety nets;
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Reaffirms the necessity to support economies, protect workers, businesses, especially micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises, and the sectors most affected, and shield the vulnerable through adequate social protection, and in this context welcomes the statement by the leaders of the Group of 20 on injecting 5 trillion United States dollars into the global economy, as part of targeted fiscal policy, economic measures and guarantee schemes to counteract the social, economic and financial impacts of the pandemic;
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Calls uponthe international community, regional and international organizations and relevant stakeholders to give high priority to people, particularly the elderly, women and girls, displaced persons and refugees and persons with disabilities, and areas that are most vulnerable, particularly developing and least developed countries, in order to mitigate any drawback towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, and highlights the need to address risks of debt vulnerabilities in developing countries, including least developed countries, landlocked developing countries, small island developing States and African countries, as well as middle-income countries, due to the pandemic;
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Calls uponMember States to enhance coordination on public health and financial measures as well as cooperation at the national, regional and international levels to confront and combat this pandemic;
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Stresses the need to give appropriate consideration to the issue of halting and reversing the global threats posed by epidemics through the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;1
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UrgesMember States, in conjunction with the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank Group and other regional and international organizations, working within their existing mandates, to embark on sustainable pandemic preparedness, response and recovery planning, taking into account strengthening the capacity of health sector institutions in developing countries;
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Requeststhe Secretary-General to mobilize the United Nations system in support of global action towards sustainable recovery, including through the work of the United Nations resident coordinators and United Nations country teams, especially in the most vulnerable countries;
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Decides to remain seized of the matter, and requests the Secretary-General to coordinate and follow up on the various relevant initiatives and to report to the General Assembly on the implementation of the present resolution in a timely manner.
