Plus de 140 personnalités dont le chef de l’Etat sénégalais Macky Sall ont demandé, jeudi, la gratuité des futurs vaccins et traitements contre la maladie à coronavirus, dans une tribune intitulée : « S’unir pour un vaccin pour tou-te-s contre la Covid-19 ».
Parmi les signataires de ce document figurent l’ancien ministre français des Affaires étrangères, Bernard Kouchner, l’économiste Joseph Stiglitz, le président du Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo.
Soulignant que la découverte d’un vaccin « est notre meilleur espoir de mettre un terme à cette douloureuse pandémie mondiale », les signataires ont demandé aux ministres de la santé qui vont se réunir à l’Assemblée mondiale de la santé « de se rallier d’urgence à la cause d’un vaccin pour tou-te-s contre cette maladie ».
« Les gouvernements et les partenaires internationaux doivent s’engager : lorsqu’un vaccin sûr et efficace sera développé, il devra être produit rapidement à grande échelle et mis gratuitement à la disposition de tous, dans tous les pays. Il en va de même pour tous les traitements, diagnostics et autres technologies contre la Covid-19 », écrivent les personnalités.
Elles reconnaissent que « de nombreux pays et organisations internationales progressent vers cet objectif (…) », estimant que « notre monde sera plus sûr que lorsque tout le monde pourra bénéficier de la science et avoir accès à un vaccin – ce qui est un défi politique ».
Selon elles, « l’Assemblée mondiale de la santé doit parvenir à un accord mondial qui garantisse un accès universel rapide à des vaccins et à des traitements de qualité, les besoins étant prioritaires sur la capacité de payer ».
Pour ces personnalités, « il est temps que les ministres de la Santé renouvellent les engagements pris lors de la création de l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS), où tous les États ont convenu d’assurer le meilleur état de santé possible en tant que droit fondamental de tout être humain ».
Selon elles, « ce n’est pas le moment de favoriser les intérêts des entreprises et des gouvernements les plus riches, au détriment de la nécessité universelle de sauver des vies, ou de laisser cette tâche importante et morale aux forces du marché ».
Ces personnalités appellent à « un accord mondial sur les vaccins, les diagnostics et les traitements de la Covid-19 mis en œuvre sous la direction de l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé ».
Dans le monde, la pandémie de la Covid-19 a tué au moins 300.000 personnes.
Signés:
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo – President of the Republic of Ghana
Imran Khan – Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Cyril Ramaphosa – President of the Republic of South Africa and Chairperson of the African Union
Macky Sall – President of the Republic of Senegal
Karen Koning Abuzayd – Commissioner of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry for Syria, Under Secretary-General as UNRWA Commissioner-General (2005-2010)
Maria Elena Agüero – Secretary General, World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid
Esko Aho – Prime Minister of Finland (1991-1995)¹
Dr. Shamshad Akhtar – Former UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Rashid Alimov – Secretary General, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (2016-2019), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan (1992-1994)²
Amat Alsoswa – Former Yemen’s Minister for Human Rights, Former United Nations Assistant Secretary General, UNDP Assistant Administrator and Regional Director/ Arab States Bureau
Philip Alston – John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, New York University School of Law and Former UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
Baroness Valerie Amos – United Nations Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (2010-2015)
Rosalia Arteaga Serrano – President of Ecuador (1997)²
Maria Eugenia Brizuela de Avila – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Salvador (1999-2004)
Shaukat Aziz – Prime Minister of Pakistan (2004-2007), former VP of the Citibank²
Jan Peter Balkenende – Prime Minister of The Netherlands (2002-2010)¹
Joyce Banda – President of the Republic of Malawi (2012-2014) and Champion for an AIDS- Free Generation¹
Nelson Barbosa – Professor, FGV and the University of Brasilia, and former Finance Minister of Brazil
José Manuel Barroso – Prime Minister of Portugal (2002-2004), President of the European Commission (2004-2014)¹
Carol Bellamy – Former Executive Director, UNICEF (1995-2005)
Valdis Birkavs – Prime Minister of Latvia (1993-1994)¹
Irina Bokova – Director-General of UNESCO (2009-2017)
Gordon Brown – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2007-2010)
Winnie Byanyima – Executive Director of UNAIDS and UN Under-Secretary General
Kathy Calvin – Former Chief Executive Officer of the United Nations Foundation
Kim Campbell – Prime Minister of Canada (1993)¹
Fernando Henrique Cardoso – President of Brazil (1995-2003)¹
Gina Casar – Executive Director of AMEXCID, Associate Administrator of UNDP (2014-2015)
Hikmet Cetin – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey (1991-1994), former Speaker of the Parliament²
Ha-Joon Chang – Director, Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge
Judy Cheng-Hopkins – Former Assistant Secretary-General, Peacebuilding Support, United Nations
Laura Chinchilla – President of Costa Rica (2010-2014)¹
Joaquim Chissano – President of the Republic of Mozambique (1986-2005) and Champion for an AIDS- Free Generation¹
Helen Clark – Prime Minister of New Zealand (1999-2008), UNDP Administrator (2009-2017)¹²
Emil Constantinescu – President of Romania (1996-2000)²
Radhika Coomaraswamy – former UN Under Secretary General and The Special Representative on Children and Armed Conflict
Ertharin Cousin – Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (2012-2017)
Paula A. Cox – Premier of Bermuda (2010-2012)
Herman De Croo – Minister of State of Belgium; Honorary Speaker of the House²
Olivier De Schutter – Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
Danny Dorling – Professor of Human Geography at Oxford University
Ruth Dreifuss – President of Switzerland (1999) and Federal Councillor (1993-2002)
Diane Elson – Emeritus Professor University of Essex, Member of UN Committee for Development Policy
Maria Fernanda Espinosa – President of the United Nations General Assembly (2018-2019), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador (2007-2009, 2017-2018) and Member of the Political Advisory Panel of UHC2030
Moussa Faki – Chairperson of the African Union Commission
Christiana Figueres – Executive Secretary of UNFCCC (2010-2016)
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir – President of Iceland (1980-1996)¹
Louise Fréchette – UN Deputy Secretary-General (1998-2006)
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr – Director of the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs and Professor of International Affairs at The New School
Patrick Gaspard – Former United States Ambassador to South Africa, President of the Open Society Foundations
Jayati Ghosh – Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University
Felipe González – President of the Government of Spain (1982-1996)¹
Rebeca Grynspan – Vice President of Costa Rica (1994-1998), Ibero-American Secretary General
Alfred Gusenbauer – Chancellor of Austria (2007-2008)¹
Han Seung-Soo – Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea (2008-2009)¹
Noeleen Heyzer – Member of the UN Secretary-General’s High Level Advisory Board on Medication²
Mladen Ivanic – President of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2014-2018)²
Devaki Jain – Feminist economist, Honorary Fellow at St Anne’s College, Oxford and member of the erstwhile South Commission (1987-90)
Arjun Jayadev – Professor of Economics at Azim Premji University
Rob Johnson – President of the Institute for New Economic Thinking
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – President of the Republic of Liberia (2006-2018)¹
Mehdi Jomaa – Prime Minister of Tunisia (2014-2015)¹
Anthony T. Jones – Vice-President and Executive Director of Gorbachev Foundation of North America (GFNA)¹
Ivo Josipovic – President of Croatia (2010-2015)²
Naila Kabeer – Professor of Gender and International Development at the London School of Economics
Michel Kazatchkine – Special Advisor to the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and Senior Fellow, Global Health Center, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Rima Khalaf – President of the Global Organization against Racial Discrimination and Segregation, and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (2010-2017)
Horst Köhler – President of Germany (2004-2010)¹
Jadranka Kosor – Prime Minister of Croatia (2009-2011)²
Bernard Kouchner – Minister of Health of France (1992-1993, 1997-1999, 2001-2002), Minister of Foreign affairs of France (2007-2010); founder of Médecins sans frontiers / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and Médecins du Monde / Doctors of the World (MdM)
Chandrika Kumaratunga – President of Sri Lanka (1994-2005)¹
Aleksander Kwaśniewski – President of Poland (1995-2005)¹²
Rachel Kyte CMG – Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera – President of Uruguay (1990-1995)¹
Ricardo Lagos – President of Chile (2000-2006)¹
Zlatko Lagumdzija – Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2001-2002)¹²
Laura Liswood – Secretary General of the Council of Women World Leaders
Nora Lustig – President Emerita of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, Professor of Latin American Economics, Tulane University
Jessie Rose Mabutas – Executive Board Member, African Capacity Building Foundation, Expert Member, Accreditation Panel of the UN Adaptation Fund, and Executive Board Member, Section on African Public Administration of the American Society for Public Administration
Graça Machel – Founder, The Graça Machel Trust and Foundation for Community Development
Susana Malcorra – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Argentina (2015-2017)
Isabel Saint Malo – Vice President of Panama (2014-2019)
Purnima Mane – Global expert on gender, HIV and sexual and reproductive health issues, President of Pathfinder International (2012-2016)
Mariana Mazzucato – Professor at University College London and Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP)
Mary McAleese – President of Ireland (1997-2011)
Rexhep Meidani – President of Albania (1997-2002)¹²
Carlos Mesa – President of Bolivia (2003-2005)¹
Branko Milanovic – Visiting Presidential Professor at the Graduate Center City University of New York
Aïchatou Mindaoudou – United Nations’ Special Representative for Côte d’Ivoire and Head of the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (2013-2017)
Festus Mogae – President of the Republic of Botswana (1998-2008) and Champion for an AIDS- Free Generation¹
Mario Monti – Prime Minister of Italy (2011-2013)¹
Kgalema Motlanthe – President of the Republic of South Africa (2008-2009) and Champion for an AIDS- Free Generation
Rovshan Muradov – Secretary General, Nizami Ganjavi International Center
Cristina Narbona – First Vice President of the Spaniard Senate and former Minister of the Environment of Spain
Bujar Nishani – President of Albania (2012-2017)²
Dr. John Nkengasong – Director of African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
Olusegun Obasanjo – President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999-2007) and Champion for an AIDS- Free Generation¹
Djoomart Otorbayev – Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan (2014-2015)²
Roza Otunbayeva – President of Kyrgyzstan (2010-2011)¹
Ana Palacio – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain (2002-2004)
Dr. David Pan – Executive Dean, Steve Scwarcman College, Tsinghua University China²
Flavia Pansieri – Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights (2013-2015)
Elsa Papademetriou – former Vice President of the Hellenic Republic (2007-2009)²
Andres Pastrana – President of Colombia (1998-2002)¹
Muhammad Ali Pate – Global Director, Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice of the World Bank and Director of Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents
Kate Pickett – Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York
Thomas Piketty – Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics and a co-director of the World Inequality Database
Rosen Plevneliev – President of Bulgaria (2012-2017)²
Hifikepunye Pohamba – President of the Republic of Namibia (2005-2015) and Champion for an AIDS- Free Generation
Karin Sham Pòo – Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF (1987-2004)
Achal Prabhala – Coordinator of the AccessIBSA project
Dainius Puras – Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
Iveta Radicova – Prime Minister of Slovakia (2010-2012)¹
José Manuel Ramos-Horta – President of Timor Leste (2007-2012)¹
J.V.R. Prasada Rao – Special Envoy to the Secretary General of the UN on AIDS (2012-2017) and Health Secretary of the Government of India (2002-2004)
Geeta Rao Gupta – Executive Director of the 3D Program for Girls and Women and Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation
Oscar Ribas – Prime Minister of Andorra (1982-84; 1990-94)¹²
Mary Robinson – President of Ireland (1990-1997), UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Chair of the Elders
Dani Rodrik – President-Elect of the International Economic Association, Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard University
Petre Roman – Prime Minister of Romania (1989-1991)¹
Juan Manuel Santos – President of Colombia (2010-2018), 2016 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Member of the Elders and Conservation International Arnhold Distinguished Fellow
Kailash Satyarthi – Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (2014) and Child Rights Activist
Ismail Serageldin – Co-Chair Nizami Ganjavi International Center, Senior VP of the World Bank (1992-2000)²
Fatiha Serour – Africa Group for Justice & Accountability
Michel Sidibé – Minister of Health and Social Affairs of Mali
Mari Simonen – Former Assistant Secretary General of the UN and Deputy Executive Director of UNFPA
Pierre Somse – Minister of Health and Population of Central Africa Republic
Vera Songwe – Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Michael Spence – Nobel Laureate for Economic Sciences (2001), William R. Berkley Professor in Economics & Business, NYU
Joseph E. Stiglitz – a Nobel laureate in economics and University Professor at Columbia University
Eka Tkeshelashvili – Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia (2010-2012)²
Aminata Touré – Prime Minister of Senegal (2013-2014)¹
Danilo Türk – President of Slovenia (2007-2012)¹
Cassam Uteem – President of Mauritius (1992-2002)¹
Marianna V. Vardinoyannis – Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO²
Ann Veneman – Executive Director of UNICEF (2005-2010)
Chema Vera – Executive Director (Interim) of Oxfam International
Melanne Verveer – United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues (2009-2013), Executive Director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security at Georgetown University
Vaira Vike-Freiberga – President of Latvia (1999-2007), Co-Chair Nizami Ganjavi International Center
Filip Vujanovic – President of Montenegro (2003-2018)²
Margot Wallström – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden (2014-2019)
Richard Wilkinson – Emeritus Professor of Social Epidemiology, University of Nottingham Medical School
Kateryna Yushchenko – First Lady of Ukraine (2005-2010)²
Viktor Yushchenko – President of Ukraine (2005-2010)²
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero – President of the Government of Spain (2004-2011)¹
Valdis Zatlers – President of Latvia (2007-2011)²
Ernesto Zedillo – President of Mexico (1994-2000)¹
Gabriel Zucman – Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley
¹ Member of WLA Club de Madrid
² Member of Nizami Ganjavi International Center (NGIC)
