The United Nations General Assembly, UNGA has approved an “omnibus resolution’’ seeking a comprehensive and coordinated global response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is coming just six days to the end of the 74th Session of the Assembly under the leadership of Nigeria represented by its Permanent Representative to the UN Tijani Muhammad-Bande.
The U.S. and Israel voted against the decision, which sailed through by 162-2 votes with two abstentions Hungary and Ukraine.
Among other affirmations, the resolution notes that multilateralism, international cooperation, and solidarity are the only paths to an effective response to global crises such as COVID-19.
To this end, it called for “intensified international cooperation and solidarity to contain, mitigate, and overcome the pandemic and its consequences.
It underscores the need for this to be done “through responses that are people-centred, gender-responsive, with full respect for human rights, multidimensional, coordinated, inclusive, innovative, swift and decisive at all levels’’.
