"We [WHO Director General] Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus call for an international agreement on pandemics, and we call on all countries to support the launch of negotiations on this," Michel quoted TASS as saying at the general political debate of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly.
It is not enough to defeat the current pandemic, he said; potential pandemics must be prevented.
Earlier it became known that the United States and the European Union are launching a partnership with the aim of transferring vaccines from coronavirus to low-income countries.