Subject: FW: [GEO] COVAX Facility – Individualised Commitment Agreement
From: Maia Nikoleishvili <[email-masked]>
To: Nino Mamaladze <[email-masked]>, Marika Ghadua <[email-masked]>, Tea Kankia <[email-masked]>
Cc: Tinatin Khardziani <[email-masked]>, Tamar Gabunia <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 06:24:01 +0000

მოგესალმებით,

გიგზავნით გავი ალიანსიდან მიღებულ მეილს, რომლითაც დაგვიდასტურეს კოვაქსის ინსტრუმენტში მონაწილეობა.

21 სექტემბერს, გავი ალიანსი გეგმას პრეს რელიზის გავრცელებას აღნიშნულ საკითხთან დაკავშირებით და გვთხოვენ უმოკლეს ვადაში დავუდასტუროთ მათ მიერ მოწოდებული ვერსია ან ჩვენი ვარიანტი გავუგზავნოთ.

“With COVAX, the world is joining forces and proving that together, we are stronger – and together, we can defeat this pandemic,” said Ekaterine Tikaradze. “Georgia will be joining the COVAX Facility to give our citizens the best chance at having access to safe vaccines. By doing this, we also make sure health care workers and other high risk persons all over the world have access to these life-saving tools, helping to bring the pandemic under control – and we can all recover and rebuild.”

ველი თქვენს პასუხს.

სს,

მაიკო

From: Ava Mojtahed
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2020 10:02 AM
To: Maia Nikoleishvili
Cc: Ketevan Goginashvili ; 'M Georgia' ; 'Lika Jabidze'
Subject: RE: [GEO] COVAX Facility – Individualised Commitment Agreement

Dear Sir,

We confirm receipt of your Commitment Agreement and welcome you to the COVAX Facility.

The COVAX Facility is a global and unique mechanism with the ambitious goal of working together with all economies to overcome the acute phase of the devastating COVID-19 Pandemic.

It is the goal of the COVAX Facility to ensure your economy, and the world, have the best possibility to access safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines.  The Facility is designed to ensure your country has the best possibility to access safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine that is critical to reduce deaths, ensure health security, support social stability, and kickstart the economic recovery. Your collaboration and commitment mean that we are one step closer to achieving this historic milestone.

We will be announcing the latest available information on confirmed Facility participants via a press release issued Monday, 21 September. We welcome and encourage you to provide a leadership quote for this release, which you can send directly to me by Monday 21 September, 08:00 CET. Quotes beyond this deadline would also be very welcome, and will be used in our longer-term communications campaign. I am also attaching, for your communications use, a short toolkit with content on key COVAX messages.

As stipulated in the signing instructions, we will revert to you with a signed version of the signature page of your agreement electronically. Kindly allow one weeks for processing. We will revert with a fully signed hard copy once we receive your governments signature page by mail.

We have drafted a quote, for the Honorable Minister’s kind consideration:

“With COVAX, the world is joining forces and proving that together, we are stronger – and together, we can defeat this pandemic,” said [NAME]. “Georgioa will be joining the COVAX Facility to give our citizens the best chance at having access to safe vaccines. By doing this, we also make sure health care workers and other high risk persons all over the world have access to these life-saving tools, helping to bring the pandemic under control – and we can all recover and rebuild.”

Should you have further questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to us.

Sincerely,

Ava Mojtahed on behalf of the COVAX Facility.

Ava Mojtahed

Gavi The Vaccine Alliance

Email: [email-masked]

Tel: + 41 22 909 71 32

Global Health Campus

Chemin du Pommier 40

1218 Grand-Saconnex

Geneva, Switzerland

Tel: + 41 22 909 65 00

Web: http://www.gavi.org

With the support of donors and partners, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance is working to immunise an additional 300 million children between 2016 and 2020, preventing a further 5-6 million deaths. Join us and help to reach every child. Visit www.gavi.org, sign up for the Gavi newsletter and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

NOTICE: This email, including any attachments to it, may be confidential and does not create any binding contract on behalf of Gavi or its partners. If this email was sent to you in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail, and please do not use, distribute, retain, print or copy the e-mail or any attachment.

From: Maia Nikoleishvili <[email-masked]>
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2020 2:58 PM
To: Ava Mojtahed <[email-masked]>; COVAX Facility <[email-masked]>
Cc: Ketevan Goginashvili <[email-masked]>; 'M Georgia' <[email-masked]>; 'Lika Jabidze' <[email-masked]>
Subject: FW: [GEO] COVAX Facility – Individualised Commitment Agreement
Importance: High

Dear Ava,

Would you be kind to respond to my previous e-mail?

Please, also confirm if this postal address is correct one.

To: Dr. Seth Berkley

Chief Executive Officer

Gavi the Vaccines Alliance

Global Health Campus

Chemin du Pommier 40

1218 Grand-Saconnex

Geneva, Switzerland

Hereby, I am sending postal address of the Ministry:

Att: Ms. Ekaterine Tikaradze, Minister

Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the

Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia

Address: 144 Tsereteli ave., 0119 Tbilisi, Georgia

Thank you in advance.

Best regards,

Maia

From: Maia Nikoleishvili
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2020 2:58 PM
To: 'Ava Mojtahed' <[email-masked]>; 'COVAX Facility' <[email-masked]>
Cc: Ketevan Goginashvili <[email-masked]>; 'M Georgia' <[email-masked]>; 'Lika Jabidze' <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: [GEO] COVAX Facility – Individualised Commitment Agreement

Dear Ava,

Let me kindly send you signed pages of the Commitment Agreement as well as full scanned document. under Section 13 of the Agreement is also indicated contact point for further communication.

If the attached document is acceptable please, let me know and we will send you 2 copies of the original signed pages (23, 24) by post. As soon as the GAVI Chief Executive Officer will duly sign, please send back one original copy to us.

Best regards,

Maia

From: Maia Nikoleishvili
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 2:30 PM
To: 'Ava Mojtahed' <[email-masked]>; COVAX Facility <[email-masked]>
Cc: Ketevan Goginashvili <[email-masked]>; M Georgia <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: [GEO] COVAX Facility – Individualised Commitment Agreement

Dear Ava,

Many thanks for your prompt reply and confirmation.

Best regards,
Maia

From: Ava Mojtahed <[email-masked]>
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 2:29 PM
To: Maia Nikoleishvili <[email-masked]>; COVAX Facility <[email-masked]>
Cc: Ketevan Goginashvili <[email-masked]>; M Georgia <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: [GEO] COVAX Facility – Individualised Commitment Agreement

Dear Mrs. Nikoleishvili,

Receiving the document tomorrow is acceptable from our side.

We thank you for your ongoing engagement and collaboration in the co-creation of the COVAX Facility.

Kind regards,

Ava

From: Maia Nikoleishvili <[email-masked]>
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 12:22 PM
To: Ava Mojtahed <[email-masked]>; COVAX Facility <[email-masked]>
Cc: Ketevan Goginashvili <[email-masked]>; M Georgia <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: [GEO] COVAX Facility – Individualised Commitment Agreement

Dear Ms. Mojtahed,

I would like to kindly inform you that the Government of Georgia completed all internal procedures for signing the Agreement between the Gavi and Georgia.

We are only missing the Minister’s signature. She will be back from her business trip tomorrow and send you signed Agreement via e-mail and by post as well.

Please, kindly confirm if sending the document on 18th of September is acceptable.

Thank you in advance for continued and fruitful collaboration.

Best regards,

Maia Nikoleishvili MPA

Head of International Relations and Protocol Division of Administration

Ministry of IDPs from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia

Address: 144 Tsereteli ave., 0119 Tbilisi, Georgia

Tel.: +995 32 2510034 (0803)

Cell phone: +995 577272713

E-mail: [email-masked]

From: Ava Mojtahed [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: 8 September, 2020 23:27
To: Ketevan Goginashvili <[email-masked]>
Cc: Tamar Gabunia <[email-masked]>; Amiran Gamkrelidze <[email-masked]>; Ekaterine Khositashvili <[email-masked]>; Maia Nikoleishvili <[email-masked]>; Lika Jabidze <[email-masked]>; COVAX Facility <[email-masked]>
Subject: [GEO] COVAX Facility – Individualised Commitment Agreement

Dear Mr Goginashvili,

Thank you for your submission of the Confirmation of Intent to Participate in the COVAX Facility (“Confirmation Letter”). We are pleased to report that to date eighty self-financing economies have confirmed their intention to participate in the Facility, and confirmations are still coming in. By way of this email, I am pleased to share with you the final and individualised version of the Commitment Agreement based on the preferences you indicated in your Confirmation Letter and the Terms and Conditions, which have not changed since first shared on August 28.

This Commitment Agreement will constitute the legally binding agreement between your Government and Gavi and will need to be signed before September 18. Requisite financing and guarantee, must be provided no later than October 9. We will follow up shortly with more information on the requirements for the guarantee.

Please note that compared to the draft Commitment Agreement provided to you on 28 August, the final version includes individualized information specific to your commitment and the Schedules to the Commitment Agreement, which are the forms of the documents described in the body of the Commitment Agreement. In addition, amendments were made in order to (i) clarify that participants may organise payments (expressed as “procure payments” in the Agreement) by a third party on their behalf of sums due under the agreement (to afford participants more flexibility in this regard) and (ii) tidy up a few lines, but not substantive.

An authorised signatory is invited to sign your individualised and final Commitment Agreement on the second to last page to the right of the bracket. Include the name and title of the authorised signatory on the line below “Executed by”.

The signature must also be witnessed and signed by the witness in the space provided next to “Witness Signature”. Include the name, occupation and address of the witness in the space provided.

Please do not sign the schedules as these are templates that are to be completed if and when necessary.

Please include, under Section 13 of the Commitment Agreement (“Method of Communication”), the appropriate contact name for communications and the address and email of such person.

Please return an electronic copy of the signature page to Gavi and send a paper copy to Gavi by post at the address indicated in Section 13.

When we receive the electronic copy of the signature page, we will send it back to you by electronic mail, signed by Dr. Seth Berkley, Chief Executive Officer. We will follow up with a paper copy sent by post to the address indicated in Section 13 of the Commitment Agreement.

We thank you for your ongoing engagement and collaboration in the co-creation of the COVAX Facility and look forward to receiving your signed Commitment Agreement.

Please do not hesitate to contact us for any questions on the information we have provided.

Please accept the assurances of our highest consideration,

Ava Mojtahed on behalf of The Office of the COVAX Facility

Ava Mojtahed

Gavi The Vaccine Alliance

Email: [email-masked]

Tel: + 41 22 909 71 32

Global Health Campus

Chemin du Pommier 40

1218 Grand-Saconnex

Geneva, Switzerland

Tel: + 41 22 909 65 00

Web: http://www.gavi.org

With the support of donors and partners, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance is working to immunise an additional 300 million children between 2016 and 2020, preventing a further 5-6 million deaths. Join us and help to reach every child. Visit www.gavi.org, sign up for the Gavi newsletter and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

NOTICE: This email, including any attachments to it, may be confidential and does not create any binding contract on behalf of Gavi or its partners. If this email was sent to you in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail, and please do not use, distribute, retain, print or copy the e-mail or any attachment.