"It feels like we're beggars!" The South African President was angry: "At this time, Africa | countries | presidents..."
According to Agence France Presse, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on the 23rd that anger still lingered over the attitude of Western countries towards African countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ramaphosa gave a speech at the New Global Financing Compact Summit held in Paris, describing African countries as "feeling like beggars when we need vaccines.".
The South African leader said that Western countries have "purchased all vaccines from around the world and stockpiled vaccines.".
He said, "We are angry about this and the situation continues to deteriorate. When we said we wanted to produce our own vaccine, when we went to the World Trade Organization, we encountered a lot of resistance, huge resistance."
"We keep saying: 'What is more important? Is it life or the profits of your large pharmaceutical companies?'"
Ramaphosa also said, "We feel that life in the northern hemisphere is much more important than life in the global south."
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa attended the New Global Financing Compact Summit in Paris on the 23rd.
The report stated that the South African leader also targeted the commitment of rich countries to help developing countries adapt to climate change.
He said that the 2009 Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change promised to provide $100 billion annually, but it has not been fulfilled.
The report states that South Africa's foreign policy under the leadership of Ramaphosa has received close attention in the West, as he recently visited Moscow and met with Russian President Putin.
Ramaphosa led an African peace delegation composed of seven countries to Moscow and Kiev this month to promote the end of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The conflict between Russia-Ukraine conflict has raised the cost of importing food and fertilizer for African countries.