Central to global recovery is the availability and distribution of vaccines. Central to the health and well-being of every human being is solidarity. Statements, good intentions and pledges are woefully inadequate.

The World Trade Organization is critical to ensuring supply chains for essential medical goods and equitable vaccine access.As the Chair of the 12th WTO Ministerial Conferencethis November, Kazakhstan calls on WTO Members to deliver a meaningful outcome on WTO’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.We also need more focused cooperation between governments and the pharmaceutical industry on licenses, technology transfers and technical support

we are convinced that, at no cost to their governments, multilateral and bilateral financial institutions can grant credit facilities through transparent and accessible, concerted and non-discriminatory mechanisms that help countries in difficulty to quickly regain financial sustainability and access to international financial markets, with preferential rates that are not affected by the country risk index.

industrialized countries should use these resources to create a mechanism to channel the quotas they have received to middle-and low-income countries, giving them access to concessionary funds.In such a mechanism, multilateral financial organizations would play a keyrole, thus ensuring that these resources reach the countries that really need them

Building resilience through hope, hard work and multi-faceted partnerships is a must for an equitable and holistic recovery from COVID-19.