Macedonian Prime Minister, Zoran Zaev, took part Friday in the Paris Peace Forum, which due to the ongoing COVID19 situation, this year the Forum has been moved completely online. The Forum is attended by more than a hundred heads of state and government, leaders of international organizations, as well as other influential figures from international business, civil society organizations, academic field, religious organizations and others.

In his video address to the Paris Peace Forum, which was founded with a mission to foster cooperation and search for the best solutions to the challenges facing the world such as climate change, terrorism, migration, cyber insecurity, etc., with this year focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Zaev said that today the world is facing a common enemy that in a very short time has shown that it does not recognize boundaries.

In his video address, Zaev stressed that the coronavirus pandemic not only endangered the most precious thing – people’s lives, but also pushed the world economy to its knees and almost took away our social life.

Rightly, the citizens have turned to us, the leaders, with the expectation that we will find quick and efficient solutions. And we, we received the message! Every day and without rest, nationally, in Europe, and here, during these three days – at the Paris Peace Forum, and worldwide, we try to find an appropriate response to the crisis that we need to overcome together. We are all here together to exchange ideas and best practices in order to find a solution to this challenge, said Prime Minister Zaev.

He added that he was deeply convinced that unity and solidarity were needed more than ever and that world leaders needed to demonstrate in practice these values that be up to the challenge – to know no boundaries and to be global.

It depends on all of us how much the world after will be the same or different after Covid-19, but now we have the chance, which we must not miss, to make it better! said Zaev.

Addressing the opening ceremony of the Paris Peace Forum, French President Emmanuel Macron underlined that the world needs now more than ever a new consensus on issues of global interest, such as the COVID-19pandemic, terrorism and climate change.

As a priority he stressed the issue of joint cooperation and solidarity in establishing a safe and effective vaccine and the need for multilateral support to the global COVAX plan, which aims to ensure fair distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.