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Following are UN Secretary-General Antnio Guterres remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the third Group of 20 (G20) meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors, held today:
We are now in the second year of a global pandemic that has killed 4 million people. Extreme climate events regularly devastate vulnerable communities. You have come together to determine the course of some of the most pressing issues we face: access to vaccines; extending an economic lifeline to the developing world; and more and better public finance for ambitious climate action.
A global vaccine gap threatens us all because as the virus mutates, it could become even more transmissible, or even more deadly. Pledges of doses and funds are we…
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