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.
The CEO of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, began campaigning for the adoption of an international law on pandemics after the catastrophic breach of his agency to adequately address the pandemic of the Coronavirus of Wuhan when he began to extend from the Chinese city in 2020, blaming a large part of the failure on countries that do not adequately share scientific data and technological advances.
Critics in the United States have warned for years to sign at the end of the protection of freedom of erosous expression of this type at home and enhanced to the United States to finance international abortions that considers medical abortions. Tedros has dismissed all criticism of the pandemic agreement as “misinformation” and said that the commitments that countries make 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 end of a draft of the Pandemic Agreement as “History” in a statement on Thursday.
“When they reached 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 had announced after this weekend that only an article of the agreement was allowed after a “marathon session” that lasted approximately 24 hours from Friday to Saturday. Multiple reports indicate that the highest dispute point in the draft was an article that ordered rich countries to press their pharmaceutical and technology fellow colleagues so that profits on technology and medicine that could facilitate the end of a pandemic can be provided. 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. An un confoliated draft of online circulation that resembles drafts confirmed above included provisions that required countries to “promote and facilitate or encourage, the transfer of technology as mutually agreed … in private for the benefit of developing.”
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.
Although the exact draft does not offer, WHO described the final product as the 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 writing the agreement and is no longer a Member State of the WHO Donald Trump retired the United States from WHO as one of his first acts in office as he had done in 2020, this time Itic. 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 pandematic 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. System to prevent, prevent and respond to future pandemic emergencies. “
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