“CHINA MUST ACT MORE RESPONSIBLY” SAYS US PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN AFTER G7 MEETING

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The U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday urged China to “act more responsibly”, after the conclusion of G7 (Group of 7) meeting in the UK. Speaking to the reporters Biden said “I think china has to start to act more responsibly in terms of International norms on human rights and transparency. Transparency matters across the board.”

“We haven’t had access to the laboratories to determine whether or not, and I have not reached a conclusion because our intelligence community is not certain yet, whether or not this was a consequence of – from the marketplace, a bat interfacing with animals and the environment that caused this COVID-19 or it was an experiment gone awry in a laboratory.”

He also added that it was important to build to determine transparency and avoid future pandemics in the world.”So we are trying to figure out at the G7 whether we could put together an international basis upon which we could have a bottom line with what the transparency accounted for”, he said.

In the Carbis Bay communiqué the G7 leaders said, “Strengthening transparency and accountability, including reiterating our commitment to the full implementation of and improved compliance with , the International Health Regulations, 2005. This includes investigating, reporting and responding to outbreak of unknown origin. We also call for a “timely, transparent, expert-led and science based WHO-convened” investigation into the origin of covid-19 origin study, including as recommended by the experts’ report in china.