ADVISORY HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/EU-VACCINE

EU conference to raise 7.5 billion euros for COVID-19 vaccine

Start: 04 May 2020 13:00 GMT

End: 04 May 2020 15:26 GMT

BRUSSELS - The European Union hosts an international pledging conference with the aim of raising at least 7.5 billion euros to fund global research in vaccine, treatments and diagnostics to tackle COVID-19.

SCHEDULE:

1300GMT Conference starts

TIME TBC - News conference at the end of the conference

EVENT RUNNING ORDER AND SPEAKERS:

Welcome - Brussels

H.E. Ms Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission

H.E. Mr Charles Michel, President of the European Council

H.E. Mr António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations

H.E. Mr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General, World Health Organization

Pledges by co-leads (protocol order)

Paris

H.E. Mr Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic

Berlin

H.E. Ms Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany

H.E. Mr Abe Shinzō, Prime Minister of Japan

H.E. Ms Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway

London

H.E. Mr Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada

H.E. Mr Giuseppe Conte, President of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Republic, Future G20 Presidency

H.E. Mr Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister of Spain

H.E. Mr Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Mr Tawfiq bin Fawzan Al-Rabiah, Minister of Health, Saudi Arabia, G20 Presidency

Remarks by Special Guests:

His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan

H.E. Mr Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa, President of the Republic of South Africa, Chairperson of the African Union

Pledges by Governments (protocol order)

H.S.H. Albert II, Sovereign Prince of Monaco

H.E. Mr Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of Turkey

H.E. Ms Simonetta Sommaruga, President of the Swiss Confederation

H.E. Mr Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel

H.E. Mr Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands

Ms Melinda Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

H.E. Mr Li Keqiang, Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of China

H.E. Mr Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister of Luxembourg

H.E. Mr Stefan Löfven, Prime Minister of Sweden

H.E. Mr António Costa, Prime Minister of Portugal

H.E. Mr Andrej Plenković, Prime Minister of Croatia

H.E. Mr Jüri Ratas, Prime Minister of the Republic of Estonia

Dr Victor Dzau, Board Member, Global Preparedness Monitoring Board

H.E. Mr Boyko Borisov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria

H.E. Mr Leo Varadkar, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland

H.E. Ms Ana Brnabić, President of the Government of the Republic of Serbia

H.E. Mr Mateusz Morawiecki, Prime Minister of Poland

H.E. Mr Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia

H.E. Ms Mette Frederiksen, Prime Minister of Denmark

H.E. Mr Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic

H.E. Mr Sebastian Kurz, Chancellor Austria

H.E. Ms Sophie Wilmès, Prime Minister of Belgium

Mr Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust, speaking also on behalf of the Therapeutics Accelerator

H.E. Mr Edgars Rinkēvičs, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Latvia

H.E. Ms Kang Kyung-wha, Foreign Minister of South Korea

H.E. Mr Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico

H.E. Sheikh Ahmed Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kuwait

H.E. Mr Anže Logar, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia

Mr Aurelijus Veryga, Minister of Health of Lithuania

Mr Ahmed Al-Saidi, Minister of Health of Oman

Ms Aino-Kaisa Pekonen, Minister of Social Affairs and Health of Finland

Ms Reem Al Hashimy, State Minister, responsible for international cooperation and Member of the Cabinet), United Arab Emirates

Mr Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum

Mr Werner Hoyer, President of the European Investment Bank

Ms Annette Dixon, Vice-President of the World Bank Group

Expressions of Support by Partner Organisations

Mr Richard Hatchett, CEO, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)

Mr Seth Berkley, CEO, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

Ms Catherine Boehme, CEO, Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics

Ms Marisol Touraine, Executive Board Chair, Unitaid

Statements by Industry and other Partners

Mr Dave Ricks, Chairman and CEO, International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations

Mr Sai D. Prasad, President, Developing Countries Vaccine Manufactures Network

Concluding Remarks by H.E. Ms Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission

Restrictions:

BROADCAST: NONE

DIGITAL: NONE

Source: EUROPEAN UNION

Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Location: Belgium

Topic: Politics / International Affairs

Audio: CH 1: NATURAL / VARIOUS - CH 2: ENGLISH TRANSLATION

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