Greece's Vaccine Diplomacy: From the Western Balkans to Africa
This week when Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias travelled to Tunisia, he wasn’t just traveling with a diplomatic team. He was also bringing 100,000 Covid-19 vaccines with him. This follows a delivery to Rwanda last week of 200,000 vaccines. These are the latest steps Greece is taking to combat the global pandemic that has seen it deliver vaccines to Libya, Albania, North Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ukraine, Kenya, and Jordan. Nikos Efstathiou, a journalist with Kathimerini, joins us to talk about these initiatives and explore how Greece is looking into expanding its “Vaccine Diplomacy” to additional countries.
Read Nikos Efstathiou’s piece for Kathimerini here (In Greek): Η Ελλάδα στη διπλωματία των εμβολίων
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