Minister of Foreign Affairs Delivers Speech at 16th Manama Dialogue’s First Plenary Session on “Global Governance in the wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic”

Minister of Foreign Affairs Kang, Kyung-wha attended the Manama Dialogue’s First Plenary Session on “Global Governance in the wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic” on December 5 at the invitation of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and delivered a speech on the growing importance and ways of international cooperation since the outbreak of COVID-19 as well as Korea’s efforts to contribute to such cooperation. In her speech, Foreign Minister Kang offered an observation that COVID-19 has revealed the crisis of multilateralism but at the same time reminded the world of the importance of global solidarity and cooperation. The Foreign Minister also mentioned that the international community needs to cooperate with each other in responding to COVID-19 as well as new health crises.