Eishan Jan, Mohammad Naqib
(2022)
Peace is what the world needs in this troubled time.
NewStraits Times, - (-).
pp. 1-3.
Abstract
FROM Palestine to Afghanistan, Syria to Libya, Yemen, Ukraine and now Kazakhstan, the people long for peace and prosperity.
But, they do not have peace, either due to lack of political will of the parties involved or because of the inability to settle the conflicts peacefully.
Or, the interests of "war profiteers" require that the conflicts be prolonged.
While many existing conflicts remain unresolved, new hotspots are emerging, which, if not settled amicably, could lead to fresh wars.
Armed conflict exacerbates the difficult situation created by the Covid-19 epidemic in war-torn countries, where access to primary healthcare and coronavirus vaccination is severely hampered.
Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), rightly stated that "the world's uneven response to Covid-19 and the fast rise of the Omicron variant shows how vulnerable we all are when large parts of the world are not vaccinated."
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