
<div><p>Josep Borrell backs UN call for global ceasefire to allow the world to focus on pandemic </p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/coronavirus-live/latest">Coronavirus – latest updates</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/coronavirus-outbreak">See all our coronavirus coverage</a></li></ul><p>Sanctions should not stop the delivery of medical equipment and supplies to countries trying to contain outbreaks of coronavirus, the EU’s top diplomat has said.</p><p>Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs, made his comments in <a href="https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2020/04/03/declaration-by-the-high-representative-josep-borrell-on-behalf-of-the-eu-on-the-un-secretary-general-s-appeal-for-an-immediate-global-ceasefire/">a declaration on Friday</a> in which he backed the UN’s call for an immediate global ceasefire to allow the world to focus on the pandemic.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/03/coronavirus-world-map-which-countries-have-the-most-cases-and-deaths">Coronavirus world map: which countries have the most cases and deaths?</a> </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/04/sanctions-should-not-impede-coronavirus-fight-josep-borrell-eu">Continue reading...</a></div>
Josep Borrell backs UN call for global ceasefire to allow the world to focus on pandemic
Sanctions should not stop the delivery of medical equipment and supplies to countries trying to contain outbreaks of coronavirus, the EU’s top diplomat has said.
Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs, made his comments in a declaration on Friday in which he backed the UN’s call for an immediate global ceasefire to allow the world to focus on the pandemic.
Related: Coronavirus world map: which countries have the most cases and deaths?
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