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"As the war has dragged on, it has become harder to find meaningful ways to penalize Russia," said Richard Gowan, U.N. director at the independent International Crisis Group.
Often disease names are chosen behind closed doors by a technical committee, but this time the WHO has decided to open up the process to the public.
Since last winter, which brought relatively little snowfall, the Alps have sweltered through two big early summer heat waves.
The letter was circulated among diplomatic missions in Geneva from late June, with a request for countries to sign it to show their support.
It is not yet clear if a vaccine compromise forged by India, South Africa, the EU and the United States will transform into a full agreement.
The proposal brought by the U.S. and others condemned Russia's actions but stopped short of immediately suspending its voting rights at the U.N. health agency.
The May 23 to 28 trip has been long in the making after the commissioner said in 2018 she wanted unfettered access to Xinjiang.
A Pfizer executive said last week the market for the drug might be up to 150 million people and that many countries might also be interested in buying doses for their strategic reserves.
The World Meteorological Organization attributed the growing frequency to both climate change and improved disaster reporting.
Specialists, all 234 of them working for free, reviewed more than 14,000 scientific studies published since 2013 to draft the latest version.
