VIENNA, May 15 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese envoy has called on the international community to work together with a common response to minimize the impact of "politicizing factors" in the fight against the novel coronavirus.
Wang Qun, Chinese envoy to the United Nations (UN) and other International Organizations in Vienna, made the call here on Thursday at an online meeting with officials from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies led by Russia, known as OPEC+.
The global economic recovery and energy re-balancing process is not just subject to the pandemic per se but also subject to "mounting man-made politicizing factors," said Wang.
As he saw, these factors include policies against globalization, attempts of stigmatization, and the stepped-up unilateral sanctions against Russia, Iran and Venezuela.
These acts have provoked trade frictions and disputes, led to greater fluctuations on the global oil market, and disrupted and undermined international efforts and cooperation against the pandemic, he added, urging to do away with the politicizing factors detrimental to the global energy security.
The envoy called on the international community to uphold multilateralism with a more intensified cooperation, especially by opposing "decoupling" and stigmatization, supporting the World Health Organization and upholding the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear deal.
