France doesn't want to talk about mutual recognition of vaccines, ambassador says

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to France and the Principality of Monaco Alexei Meshkov at his residence in Paris. File photoPARIS Feb 10Moscow has repeatedly offered France to follow the path of mutual recognition of coronavirus vaccines, but they don’t want to hear it, Russian Ambassador to Paris Alexei Meshkov said in an interview with RIA Novosti. other countries — mutual recognition of vaccinations, and then this would alleviate the problem,» Meshkov said.In France, they called the worst mistake of NATO in relations with Russia. However, no agreement on the mutual recognition of vaccines between the Russian Federation and France was reached, he noted. “It seems that they don’t want to hear us, because these proposals were put forward at almost all levels,” he emphasized. Since March 4, 2021, the Russian coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V has been undergoing a gradual examination procedure at the European Medicines Agency, which approves drugs for centralized use in the European Union. «Sputnik V» is approved in 71 countries with a total population of 4 billion people, more than 50% of the world's population. In terms of the number of approvals received by state regulators, Sputnik V ranks second in the world. The effectiveness of the vaccine was 97.6% based on an analysis of data from 3.8 million vaccinated Russians, which is higher than the data published earlier by the medical journal The Lancet (91.6%), reported by the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Gamaleya Research Center. Data on the use of Sputnik V during vaccination of the population in a number of countries (Argentina, San Marino, Serbia, Hungary, Bahrain, Mexico, the United Arab Emirates and others) demonstrate that Sputnik V is one of the safest and most effective vaccines against coronavirus , RDIF reported.