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Nirmala Sitharaman

Published: 03rd May 2021     

FM calls for sharing of technologies on COVID vaccines; says no space for vaccine nationalism

She also pitched for examining Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement in the light of the Coronavirus pandemic

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Stressing that there cannot be any vaccine nationalism, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharam on Monday urged nations to share technologies on COVID vaccines amid the pandemic.

She also pitched for examining Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement in the light of the Coronavirus pandemic.

"Countries will have to be open about sharing vaccine-based technologies. The TRIPS agreement will have to be looked at in the context of the pandemic. There cannot be any more vaccine nationalism, countries will have to be flexible about it," she said at the annual meet of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

The TRIPS agreement is a legal pact between all the member nations of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

It establishes minimum standards for regulation by national governments of different forms of intellectual property as applied to nationals of other WTO member nations.

The agreement has been in force from January 1995.

Participating in a virtual seminar, Sitharaman said there is a need to have a global multilateral approach to deal with the COVID pandemic.

Post pandemic, she said, "the future as I said, will have to be based on principles of openness, transparency, fairness, sustainability and inclusiveness".

As regards global climate action, she said, India is committed to all the Paris agreement-based commitments and it is well on a course to fulfill all those commitments.

About efforts of the government to keep the wheels of economy running during the pandemic, Sitharaman said the government extended financial assistance to various sectors.

Observing that MSMEs are the backbone of the economy, she said the government has extended financial assistance in terms of Rs 3 lakh crore loan guarantee to help them amid the pandemic.

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