Vaccines: President Macron calls on "the Anglo-Saxons" to stop "blocking" exports
Emmanuel Macron upon his arrival at the EU summit, at the Alfandega do Porto Congress Center in Porto, Portugal on May 7, 2021. REUTERS - POOL
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French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday called on "
the Anglo-Saxons
" to stop "
blocking
" exports of vaccines and the ingredients needed to produce them, which would strengthen
global vaccine "
solidarity
".
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For the vaccine to circulate
", we must "
not block the ingredients and the vaccines themselves,
" he declared on his arrival at a European summit in Porto.
However, “
today, the Anglo-Saxons block many of these ingredients and vaccines.
Today, 100% of vaccines produced in the United States of America go to the American market
, ”he said.
He pointed out that out of 110 million doses produced in Europe, the EU had exported 45 million and kept 65 million.
"
We are the most generous in the world today in the camp of developed countries
," he noted.
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The French president repeated that he was "
open
" to the idea of lifting intellectual property on anti-Covid vaccines, supported by US President Joe Biden.
"
We Europeans have been fighting for the vaccine to be a global public good for a year now, and I am happy that we are being followed,
" he said.
In recent months, Emmanuel Macron had estimated on several occasions that the "
good debate
", "
the useful debate
", should not first relate to intellectual property, but to "
the transfer of technology and the mobilization of production capacities.
".
He had indicated that he had "
no opposition, only doubts about the effectiveness of a possible release of the patents
".
The Head of State specified that the debate on patents should "
not kill the remuneration of innovation
" and that he was working "
completely hand in hand with
German
Chancellor
" Angela Merkel and the European Commission on this matter. subject.
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(With
AFP
)
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