The latest draft of the Pandemic Treaty proposed by WHO’s
Intergovernmental Negotiating Body is an admission of failure so
significant that they are suggesting nations sign an incomplete
document.
“They know that they cannot show us the details of
what they really want to do. So, they are proposing an incomplete,
watered-down agreement in the hopes that they will be able to make
decisions in the future; in the hopes that we won’t be paying
attention,” James Roguski has concluded.
Please note: WHO’s Pandemic Treaty has also been referred to as the Pandemic Accord, Pandemic Agreement and WHO Convention Agreement + (“WHO CA+”). In this article, we refer to it as the Pandemic Agreement.
The ninth meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body
(“INB”) started on 18 March and ended on 28 March. “WHO Member States
agreed to resume negotiations aimed at finalising a pandemic agreement
during 29 April to 10 May” at the resumption of INB9, a statement released by the World Health Organisation (“WHO”) said.
In
December 2021 WHO decided to establish the INB to draft and negotiate a
WHO convention, agreement, or other international instrument on
pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. INB9 is the ninth
meeting of the INB.
The next round of INB9 negotiations will end a little over two weeks before the World Health Assembly.
“Next
month’s resumption of INB9 will be a critical milestone ahead of the
Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly, starting 27 May 2024, at which
Member States are scheduled to consider the proposed text of the world’s
first pandemic agreement for adoption,” WHO’s statement said.
WHO’s
statement includes a link to a draft of the Pandemic Agreement that
INB9 was negotiating. This version is labelled A/INB/9/3 and is dated
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