Great News! World Health Pandemic Treaty on Hold! By Brian Simpson
I saw this item at a number of dissent sites, then had to searchfor mainstream confirmation, but it seems to be true. The World Health Organization pandemic treaty ran into trouble during the previous meeting a few days ago. It is not exactly clear what caused the breakdown, given the way the WHO was so gung-ho about getting this treaty signed. There are indications that countries disagreed about fundamental issuers, not so much the one concerning us like national sovereignty, but things like sharing vaccines and other resources with the Third World.
The WHO has not given up, and is continuing with its program after the set back, but it does seem to be a major setback, and if there is a bird flu conspiracy, may impact upon that. But one point that comes from this is that nations will not, when push comes to shove, put big political issues to the forefront, such as an undermining of national sovereignty, but will on the face of it be concerned about the more technical economic issues. So, a strategy for undermining these globalist projects is to find technical errors and limitations in the proposal that are not easily repaired. That was the best way of finishing off various projects at a local level such as the Multifunction Polis project, the idea of building a futuristic Japanese city in the swamplands of Gillman, Adelaide. A bit before my activist time, but James Reed remembers this one, which Eric Butler of ALOR also fought.
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/some-good-news-the-treaty-negotiations
"Vis a vis my earlier post today on how the WHO's advice during COVID led to a series of disasters, Tedros is still whistling the same old tune today despite the facts:
"Where there is a will there is a way, so I am still positive, despite the outcome. There may be hiccups, but I don't call it failure," Tedros said. "You have really progressed a lot and done a lot."
He urged people to remember the harsh impacts of the pandemic and the need to prevent the recurrence of the same scenario again – although memories of that period now seem to be fading.
"I don't know if there was anyone who has not been affected by COVID," he said. "Not only losing loved ones, but economic problems, loss of jobs, you name it. This impact was because the world was unprepared, and by the way, it still is."
"A global treaty to fight pandemics like COVID is going to have to wait: After more than two years of negotiations, rich and poor countries have failed — for now — to come up with a plan for how the world might respond to the next pandemic.
After COVID-19 triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed millions, leaders at the World Health Organization and worldwide vowed to do better in the future. In 2021, member countries asked the U.N. health agency to oversee negotiations to figure out how the world might better share scarce resources and stop future viruses from spreading globally.
On Friday, Roland Driece, co-chair of WHO's negotiating board for the agreement, acknowledged that countries were unable to come up with a draft. WHO had hoped a final draft treaty could be agreed on at its yearly meeting of health ministers starting Monday in Geneva.
"We are not where we hoped we would be when we started this process," he said, adding that finalizing an international agreement on how to respond to a pandemic was critical "for the sake of humanity."
Driece said the World Health Assembly next week would take up lessons from its work and plot the way forward, urging participants to make "the right decisions to take this process forward" to one day reach a pandemic agreement "because we need it."
The draft treaty had attempted to address the gap that occurred between COVID-19 vaccines in rich and poorer countries, which WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said amounted to "a catastrophic moral failure."
Addressing a sullen final day of negotiations, the WHO chief insisted, "This is not a failure."
"We will try everything — believing that anything is possible — and make this happen because the world still needs a pandemic treaty," he said. "Because many of the challenges that caused a serious impact during COVID-19 still exist."
The accord's aim was to set guidelines for how the WHO's 194 member countries might stop future pandemics and better share resources. But experts warned there were virtually no consequences for countries that don't comply.
The co-chairs of the treaty-drafting process didn't specify what caused the logjam, but diplomats have said vast differences remained over sharing of information about pathogens that emerge and the sharing of technologies to fight them.
The latest draft had proposed that WHO should get 20% of the production of pandemic-related products like tests, treatments and vaccines and urges countries to disclose their deals with private companies.
Earlier this month, U.S. Republican senators wrote to the Biden administration, arguing that the draft treaty focused on issues like "shredding intellectual property rights" and "supercharging the WHO." They urged Biden not to sign off."
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