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Saturday, 30 January 2021 (YJC)_ UK Foreign Secretary said EU 'Has No Desire' to Block Covid Vax Supplies.
European Union officials have "reassured" Britain that Brussels "has no desire to block suppliers fulfilling contracts for vaccine distribution to the UK," Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has tweeted, indicating that he had had a "constructive conversation" on the matter with European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis.
“Constructive conversation with @VDombrovskis this afternoon. I was reassured the EU has no desire to block suppliers fulfilling contracts for vaccine distribution to the UK. The world is watching and it is only through international collaboration that we will beat this pandemic,” Raab wrote on his Tweeter.
Raab's remarks come in the wake of Brussels' move to introduce export controls on COVID-19 vaccines, with the controls threatening to affect supplies in countries like the UK, US, Canada and Australia. British officials have slammed the decision, with former Brexit minister David Jones dubbing the spat as a "vaccine war" between the UK and a "Mafia-like" EU.
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