G 20
- October 14, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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G 20
Subject – IR
Context – Goyal pushes for IPR waiver on vaccines, breaking trade barriers
Concept –
- Commerce & Industry Minister Piyush Goyal made a renewed call for a temporary waiver of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on vaccines and medical products and dismantling of new trade barriers such as vaccine discrimination to fight the global pandemic.
- The Minister said there was a need for active resolution of new trade barriers like vaccine differentiations or Covid passports, which impose mobility restrictions and impede the movement of personnel needed for delivering critical services.
- Goyal pointed out that India’s telemedicine initiative ‘e-Sanjeevani’ has been serving millions of Indians, and the country is ready to offer it to the rest of the world.
- The G20 includes Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the UK, the US and the European Union.
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