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ALRAQABA . ISSUE 15
GCC Countries Consolidate their Efforts in Response
to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Editorial Secretary
As we are witnessing the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the General Secretariat of
the United Nations emphasized that all countries should step up measures to detect and contain
the disease and get control over the situation before it gets worse and end up with serious
consequences on both the public health and economy. Those measures should be taken without any
discrimination while maintaining respect for human rights. It was also stressed that everyone should
assume responsibility to make every effort possible to contain the pandemic.
In a similar step, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) has also affirmed the need for cooperation
and consolidation of efforts across the whole world in order to adequately address this newly emerged
threat. The United Nations, therefore, recommended that all health and safety measures and precautions
be undertaken, in cooperation with the different UN organizations and agencies, to mitigate the
spread of the virus at all levels. At the humanitarian level, the UN has established a solidarity fund, in
cooperation with the Swiss Charity Foundation. It aims to support the organization and its partners in
assisting countries during their response to the Novel Coronavirus as well as detecting and treating
the infected cases, particularly countries in need of assistance in this domain. The International
Monetary Fund (IMF) provides assistance at the economic level to the member countries in the fields
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