Image Source : PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses on the Workshop on ‘Covid-19 Management: Experience, Good Practices and Way Forward’ with 10 Neighboring Countries, via video conferencing.
In an uncommon transfer, Pakistan on Thursday supported Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 5 proposals on making South Asia a Covid-19 free area.
Official sources instructed IANS that on the well being secretary-level SAARC digital workshop held on the administration of Covid-19, the place Pakistan was invited, there was a whole consensus on Prime Minister Modi’s concepts.
In his tackle to the SAARC officers earlier on Thursday, Modi had made a robust pitch for regional cooperation in combating Covid-19. He had proposed the member nations to contemplate making a particular visa scheme for regional docs and nurses in order that they will journey shortly inside the area throughout well being emergencies on the request of the receiving nations.
He additionally advisable the civil aviation ministries of the member nations to coordinate a regional air ambulance settlement for medical contingencies. His third suggestion for the SAARC was to create a regional platform for collating, compiling and learning the info for the effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines among the many area’s inhabitants.
Modi additionally recommended the creation of a regional community for selling technology-driven epidemiology for stopping future pandemics. Lastly, he proposed that the SAARC members ought to transcend Covid-19 and share their profitable public well being insurance policies and schemes with one another.
“From India, Ayushman Bharat and Jan Aarogya schemes may be useful case studies for our friends in the region. Such collaborations can become the pathway for greater regional cooperation among us in other areas too,” the Prime Minister mentioned in his tackle.
“After all, we share so many common challenges — climate change, natural disasters, poverty, illiteracy, and social and gender imbalances — but we also share the power of centuries old cultural and people to people linkages,” he added.
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Modi additional mentioned, “If we focus on all that unites us, our region can overcome not only the present pandemic, but our other challenges too. If the 21st century is to be the Asian century, it cannot be without greater integration among the countries of South Asia and the Indian Ocean island countries. The spirit of regional solidarity that you have shown during the pandemic has proven that such integration is possible.”
Official sources mentioned that every one the SAARC nations, together with Pakistan, supported Modi’s 5 proposals and supplied to carry a structured dialogue for regional cooperation on his proposals to take them ahead.
All of them agreed that there’s a want for such cooperation on regional foundation for preventing pandemics. Also, all of the nations (besides Pakistan which has not obtained vaccines) thanked India and the Prime Minister for Covid-19 vaccine provides.
SAARC is a grouping of South Asian nations together with India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Pakistan’s assist to Prime Minister’s proposals assume significance in view of the truth that Islamabad-New Delhi relations have deteriorated badly since 2016.
As a outcome, India had stayed away from the SAARC until final 12 months when Modi took the initiative to deliver the discussion board collectively via a digital summit over the coronavirus pandemic. While Islamabad refused to take part, Modi had proposed the creation of an emergency fund to battle the pandemic on the time.
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