“We continue to discuss and are considering this proposal,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

Earlier, the head of the Russian permanent mission to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, said that the permanent representatives of a number of countries are interested in when the organization will start vaccination against coronavirus with a Russian drug.

In a video message at the 75th session of the UN General Assembly in September, Putin offered to provide the organization's employees with a Russian coronavirus vaccine free of charge.