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Jakarta (VOI News) - The Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi chaired Foreign Policy and Global Health Ministers' Virtual Meeting (FPGH MVM) on Thursday (3/9/2020). Via teleconference, Friday (4/9 / 2020), Foreign Minister Retno said at the meeting she conveyed three things related to the health sector. First, said the Foreign Minister, the importance of global cooperation to ensure equal and equitable access to vaccines. The second thing Retno conveyed was the importance of governance or health systems global strong.

"The second is the importance of governance or a strong Global Health system. FPGH countries must strengthen WHO, especially regarding the ability to carry out early detection and respond to the challenges of Global Health in the future,” Retno Marsudi continued.

Meanwhile, the last thing she conveyed was to build a strong national health system for each country. In the teleconference Friday, Foreign Minister Retno also hoped that Foreign Policy and Global Health (FPGH) could become a motor for strengthening the spirit of international cooperation and collaboration in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic. Retno Marsudi conveyed that the Virtual Ministerial Meeting on Foreign Policy and Global Health (FPGH) was attended by seven ministers from FPGH countries, namely South Africa, Brazil, Indonesia, France, Norway, Senegal, and Thailand and was also attended by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghbreyesus.

Quoted from the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia, FPGH was founded in 2007 and consists of seven countries that attended this session. This forum was formed with the aim of promoting the importance of global health issues in the framework of foreign policy. This year, Indonesia was appointed as chairman. (VOI / YOUTUBE KEMLU/ AHM)