LONDON —Britain will on Wednesday call for a United Nations resolution to help negotiate ceasefires so that people in conflict zones can be vaccinated against COVID-19, saying member states have a moral duty to protect the vulnerable.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab will chair a virtual meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to discuss the threat facing the more than 160 million people living in areas of instability and conflict, such as Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia.
“We have a moral duty to act, and a strategic necessity to come together to defeat this virus,” Raab said in a statement.
He will also urge U.N. members to come together to support equitable access…
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