UN General Assembly adopts pandemic resolution
   Date :13-Sep-2020

UN General Assembly adopt
 
The world body adopted the resolution on Friday by a vote of 169-2. It was a strong show of unity by the UN’s most representative body in addressing the coronavirus
THE UN General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved a resolution on tackling the coronavirus pandemic over objections from the United States and Israel, which protested a successful last-minute Cuban amendment that strongly urges countries to oppose unilateral economic, financial or trade sanctions.
 
The world body adopted the resolution on Friday by a vote of 169-2. It was a strong show of unity by the UN’s most representative body in addressing the coronavirus, though many countries had hoped for adoption by consensus. The resolution is not legally binding. It “calls for intensified international cooperation and solidarity to contain, mitigate and overcome the pandemic” and it urges member States “to enable all countries to have unhindered timely access to quality, safe, efficacious and affordable diagnosis, therapeutics, medicines and vaccines.”
 
 
India votes in favour of UNGA resolution
 
 
By Yoshita Singh
INDIA, along with 168 nations, voted in favour of a COVID-19 resolution in the UN General Assembly that reaffirms international cooperation to respond to “one of the greatest global challenges” and acknowledges the World Health Organisation’s “key leadership role” in responding to the outbreak, a reference the US objected to as it opposed the resolution.
 
The Omnibus Resolution on Comprehensive and Coordinated Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic was overwhelmingly adopted by the 193-member General Assembly Friday, with 169 nations voting in favour of the resolution that recognised the COVID-19 pandemic as “one of the greatest global challenges in the history of the United Nations”. The US and Israel voted against the resolution and Ukraine and Hungary abstained.