Vaccine dispute: Macron's office to see Sanofi executives 

French President Emmanuel Macron's top officials will meet with executives of pharmaceutical giant Sanofi early next week, his office said Thursday after the firm's CEO said the U.S. would be the first recipient of a COVID-19 vaccine it is racing to develop. 

"This vaccine must be a global public good, which is not submitted to market forces," the presidency said in a statement.

Earlier on Thursday, the European Union (EU) also made an appeal that any vaccine against coronavirus must be available equitably to all countries following Sanofi's announcement.

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