Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19 (Photo: AFP/VNA) Ngoc made the proposal at a meeting between the ASEANCommittee in Washington DC and Stephen Claeys, Senior Director, Trade Policy atPfizer, on cooperation between ASEAN member states and the US company onOctober 15 (local time).
He appreciated Pfizer's support for Vietnam, and requested thiscompany to realise its commitment to providing Vietnam with 51 million doses ofits vaccine in 2021 and continue its discussions with relevant Vietnamese agencieson the vaccine supply in 2022.
Sharing Vietnam's view that Pfizer should build a productionbase in Southeast Asia, ambassadors and representatives from several countriessuch as the Philippines and Singapore, proposed a tripartite cooperationbetween Pfizer, ASEAN and the US government in pandemic prevention.
They called on Pfizer to continue helping countries coexistwith COVID-19 and prepare for future pandemics.
Philippine Ambassador Jose Manuel Romualdez stressed theimportance of this meeting to help find appropriate forms of cooperationbetween ASEAN countries and Pfizer to jointly respond to the pandemic.
For his part, Stephen Clayes praised the views of ASEANcountries and said Pfizer will implement the signed commitments, includingthose with Vietnam.
Pfizer is committed to creating equal access at reasonableprices for all, he added./.
VNA
