The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday that its negotiators had completed a final draft of the draft or a proposed international legal document to govern the pandemic response, which will be voted in the World Health Assembly in May.
Negotiations on the writing of the Tok Pandemia Agreement or a heated debate as negotiators pressed countries to accept provisions to share medical technology mills at discounted prices and accept international authority policies. The editors have not yet equipped, in which son of the international legal document will be the agreement: a pact, treated or other format, at the time of publication.
WHO General Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus began campaigning for the adoption of an international law on pandemics after his catastrophic agencies failure To properly address Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic when it begged to extend outside the Chinese city in 2020, blaming much of the failure of countries that do not properly share scientific data and technological advances.
Critics in the United States have for years warned That signing of this agreement could erode protections of freedom of expression at home and force the United States to finance international abortions that considers medical abortions. Tedros has eagerly dismissed all criticisms of the pandemic agreement as “erroneous informationAND say That the country of commitments makes in the agreement “affirm national sovereignty” instead of eroding it. The agency published a propaganda video this week to combat groups about the document too.
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The general director celebrated the completion of a pandemic agreement as “history” in a statement Thursday.
“Upon reaching a consensus on the application of pandemic, they not only established a generational agreement to make the world safer, but have also shown that multilatery is alive and well,” Tedros proclaimed, “and that in our work of Tog, the work of the nation had shared the response to shared threats.”
“I thank the Member States and their negotiation teams, for their forecast, commitment and tireless work. We hope the consideration of the World Health Assembly and – We hope – His adoption, “he added.
Matsoso Price, co -chair of the international negotiation body who wrote the agreement, described itself as “full of joy” at the end of the draft.
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Tedros announced After this weekend, only an article in the agreement was completed after a “marathon session” that lasted approximately 24 hours from Friday to Saturday. Multiple reports indicate That the greatest point of discussion in the draft was an article that ordered rich countries to press their pharmaceutical and technology companies in forfits in technology and medicine that could help facilitate the end of a pandemic. The agency France-Presse (AFP) identified article 11, on such exchange, as the most written challenge.
WHO did not publish the draft with his announcement on Wednesday, allowing countries to discuss and amend the document in the World Health Assembly in May. Annonfirmed duration Online circulation that resembles confirmed previous drafts including provisions that require countries to “promote or encourage, technology transfer as mutually agreed … for the benefit of developing countries.”
The unconfirmed draft also required that the signatories “promote relevant patents or licenses for the production of health -related health products to renounce or collect reasonable royalties” a pandemic.
However, it does not offer the exact draft, the WHO described The final product that includes provisions: “establish a pathogen access system and share benefits; take concrete measures on pandemic prevention”; and “facilitate the transfer of related technology and knowledge, skills and experience for the production of pandemic related health products.”
The UN Agency insisted that “the proposal affirms that the sovereignty of countries to address public health issues within its borders, and establishes that nothing in the draft agreement will be interpreted as providing who is an authority to direct, order, alter, alter” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “”.
The United States was not part of the agreement’s writing and is no longer a Member State of the WHO Donald Trump withdraw The United States of the WHO, as one of its first acts in office in January, as it had done in 2020, this time citing its mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic. Former President Joe Biden joined the organization duration of his mandate and participated in the conversations of Pandemic Agreement.
“The United States is committed to the pandemic agreement, to form an important component of global health architecture for coming generations,” Pamela Hamamoto, who represented the United States in negotiations, affirmed In 2023. “The shared commitment, shared aspirations and shared responsibilities will greatly improve our system to prevent, prevention and respond to future emergencies of the pandemic.”
