UNITED NATIONS — China will give United Nations peacekeeping troops 300,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine, the Chinese diplomatic mission to the UN said Monday, bolstering the 200,000 doses already pledged by India to protect 100,000 soldiers and police officers deployed in peace missions.
The mission said that China’s ambassador to the UN, Zhang Jun, had told Secretary-General Antonio Guterres of the donation “to UN peacekeepers, with priority given to the peacekeeping missions in Africa.”
“This is a further step to make China’s vaccines a global public good, and also a demonstration of China’s firm and continuous support to the UN and multilateralism,” it said in a statement.
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