World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus complained on Monday that a “torrent of fake news, lies and conspiracy theories” had successfully thwarted globalist efforts to establish a global pandemic treaty.
Tedros has spearheaded efforts to draft and implement global pandemic treaties, conventions and other agreements since at least late 2020, when the world struggled to contain a wave of deaths and severe illness. and has empowered its own organization on public health policy beyond national governments. Due to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. The 2021 World Health Assembly (WHA), the annual meeting of all WHO member states, discussed the possibility of passing a pandemic agreement, but a draft did not exist until early 2023.
At the 2023 WHA, Parties discussed: draft Countries cannot decide whether to agree to a treaty, convention, convention or other international legal instrument on what is referred to as the “WHO Convention, Convention or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.” This is because of this. Comment on the document's calls for transfer of intellectual property rights for life-saving pandemic treatments, “equity” in the coordinated response to the pandemic, and “differential responsibility” between poor and rich countries. Differences stalled progress in promoting legal instruments.widespread concerns about erosion of sovereignty and human rightsThat would be possible if the WHO gained authority to set public health policy, but its abysmal response to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic has similarly prompted pause.
Mr Tedros accused the government of not understanding the urgency of empowering the agency and blamed the delay on “a torrent of fake news, lies and conspiracy theories”. according to This was reported to Agence France-Presse (AFP). He insisted it was “absolutely false” that the pandemic agreement would allow the WHO to impose lockdowns and other civil rights violations against the wishes of member states.
“We cannot allow this historic agreement, a milestone in global health, to be disrupted,” AFP news agency quoted Tedros as saying.
Tedros It was delivered In a speech at the opening of the WHO Executive Board's first meeting of the year on Monday, the WHO was quoted as pointing out that time is running out as it aims to conclude a pandemic agreement at the WHA in 2024.
“At the political level, world leaders at a high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly agreed to a strong political declaration, including a commitment to conclude negotiations on the Pandemic Treaty and amendments to the International Health Regulations by May this year,” he said. said. But I have to say that I am very concerned that member states will not fulfill their commitments. ”
“Time is very limited and there are still some outstanding issues that remain to be resolved,” he warned.
“In my view, if we fail to implement the Pandemic Agreement and the IHR amendments, we will be missing out on opportunities that future generations may not be able to afford,” Tedros added.
The IHR is an independent international legal instrument known as the International Health Regulations. WHO is also seeking to expand its powers through amendments to the IHR that will allow greater freedom to declare health emergencies, among other powers. His WHA results in 2023 yielded several accomplishments. success The amendments to the IHR include allowing the WHO to declare a public health emergency without “consulting with and attempting to obtain confirmation from the State Party in the territory where the event is said to have occurred.” Contains fixes to:
The approved IHR amendments aim to prevent a repeat of the situation in early 2020, when the WHO had evidence of a new disease originating in Wuhan, China, but the Communist Party intervened and declared a health emergency. Due to the delay in declaring a state of emergency, the disease spreads and the situation develops from an epidemic to a pandemic.
Tedros was re-elected as WHO director-general in a closed election in 2022, despite worldwide condemnation of the organization's handling of the pandemic and its ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom (left) shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping before a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on January 28, 2020. (Naohiko Hatta – Pool/Getty Images)
“It takes courage and it takes compromise. You can't reach an agreement if everyone remains stuck in their position,” Tedros advised member states in Monday's remarks. “Everyone has to give something, otherwise no one gets anything.”
Tedros also used his remarks to reiterate his demand for $1.5 billion “to support the response to the emergency.”
The campaign to conclude this year's pandemic agreement began earlier than usual. Tedros made similar remarks at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, in January, warning that the still-unknown “Disease warned that it might.
“We lost a lot of people [during the coronavirus pandemic] Because we couldn't control them,” Tedros argued. “We could have saved them, but we didn't have the space. We didn't have enough oxygen. So how do we build a system that can scale when we need it?”
“The pandemic agreement can bring together all the experiences we have faced, all the challenges and all the solutions,” he asserted. “This agreement will help us prepare for the future in a better way.”
“This is a common global interest and very narrow national interests should not stand in the way,” Tedros argued.
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