Tuesday, 20 Apr 2021 02:07 PM MYT
The European Commission outlined its plans for a vaccine-sharing mechanism in January. Austria said it would serve as that mechanism’s coordinator for the Western Balkans, and that this first distribution of doses may be followed by others. “With this initiative we are showing that we are not leaving the region behind,” Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg told a news conference. His country, the successor state to an empire that once stretched deep into the Balkans, maintains close ties with countries in the region.
“There is absolutely no connection here to the provision of vaccines in Austria and in other member states,” said Schallenberg, whose government faces growing public frustration with the slow pace of vaccinations.
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