NEW YORK - India on Wednesday (Feb 17) offered a Covid-19 vaccine to all United Nations peacekeepers - nearly 95,000 troops in 12 missions around the world.

"Keeping in mind the UN Peacekeepers who operate in such difficult circumstances, we would like to announce today a gift of 200,000 doses for them," India's External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar told a UN Security Council meeting on the coronavirus pandemic and conflict zones.

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Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar speaks to the media after the 2019 U.S.-India 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue at the State Department in Washington, US, December 18, 2019.

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NEW YORK - India on Wednesday (Feb 17) offered a Covid-19 vaccine to all United Nations peacekeepers - nearly 95,000 troops in 12 missions around the world. "Keeping in mind the UN Peacekeepers who operate in such difficult circumstances, we would like to announce today a gift of 200,000 doses for them," India's External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar told a...

India offers to vaccinate all 95,000 UN peacekeepers