Prime Minister Suga will meet with Microsoft founder Bill Gates over the phone to show his determination to host the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics and to cooperate in supplying the new coronavirus vaccine to developing countries. I told you.
On the morning of the 12th, Prime Minister Suga called Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, who is working on measures against poverty and eradication of intractable diseases based on a charity established based on his own donations, for about 15 minutes. We had a meeting at.
Among them, Mr. Gates expressed his hope for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics this summer, and contributed the Japanese government's funds to an international framework in which each country jointly purchases multiple vaccines to combat the new coronavirus. I thanked him.
In response, Prime Minister Suga expressed his determination to hold the Tokyo Convention and expressed his intention to cooperate in the supply of vaccines to developing countries.
Suntory Holdings President Takeshi Niinami, who attended the telephone talks, told reporters, "Prime Minister Suga was telling us that he would'must be done'about the Tokyo Games, and he was positive about the supply of vaccines." I did.