Pascal Lamy: Spain and Germany Join the Paris Peace Forum

Global South to Have a Stronger Presence at the Paris Peace Forum

The UN Brief interviewed Pascal Lamy, President of the Paris Peace Forum, former WTO Director General, and EU Trade Commissioner, to speak about Germany and Spain joining the organization as members, and the polylateral nature of the Forum, which now is opening membership to nations from the Global South.

We discussed the importance of having countries from the Global South to join the Paris Peace Forum, and also the contributions of the Forum as a platform, and that of France and the EU, to the deployment of vaccines campaigns and distribution in Africa via the COVAX facility in 2020, and how the focus now must be on ending the sanitary crisis with vaccination campaigns in developing countries.

We also talked about the main topics that will be addressed in November, at the next edition of the Paris Peace Forum, the economic fractures that were revealed by the pandemic, the gender digital divide, and the gap on universal health care, in particular the vaccine distribution asymmetries b…