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The proposal to hold a special session of the UN General Assembly in a videoconference format in order to enhance solidarity in the fight against the coronavirus, which was put forward by President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, supported by around 130 members of the world organization, which is sufficient for the event. This was announced by the assistant to the President of Azerbaijan — head of Department on foreign policy of the administration of President Hikmet Hajiyev.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev during his speech in the online non-aligned Movement summit to combat the pandemic as a model of global solidarity put forward a proposal to hold a videoconference, a special session of the UN General Assembly at the level of heads of state and government, — quotes his words TASS.

Hajiyev noted that the proposal was unanimously agreed upon in new York between the 120 member countries of the non aligned Movement. UN Secretary-General, antónio Guterres appealed to all members to decide on their attitude to the proposal within 30 days, until June 27. To happen, it needs to support no less than 97 countries-members of the organization. In the end, according to Baku, before the deadline, about 130 countries had reported to the office of the Secretary-General about his support for the initiative Foundation.

"we are Convinced that the special session will create the conditions for full mobilization of the international community in the fight against the pandemic and make a positive contribution to finding a global response to this global threat. The continuation of the pandemic COVID-19 once again shows that there is a great need for urgent and immediate meeting of heads of state and governments of the world in the framework of the special session of the UN General Assembly, called the world Parliament, to discuss ways out of the engulfing world of trouble COVID-19 and finding solutions," he said.

March 11, the world health organization (who) declared a pandemic of coronavirus in the world. For six months, has infected more than 9.6 million people worldwide, more than 489 thousand patients with COVID-19 died. Recovered 4.8 million people. At the moment Russia ranks third by the number of people infected in the world.

Wrote NEWS.ru previously the who said the number infected by the coronavirus in the past day.