Last week, the Aligned Council of Australia held an international press
conference to discuss the World Health Organisation’s proposed pandemic
instruments that are due to be voted on at the 77th World Health
Assembly being held at the end of this month.
Briefing the press
and the public were four panellists: Dr. David Bell, Professor Ramesh
Thakur, Professor Augusto Zimmerman and Professor Ian Brighthope.
Prof.
Thakur has two major concerns about WHO’s pandemic plans: they are a
major power grab and national sovereignty is at risk.
Dr. Bell
said WHO’s two proposed pandemic documents are clearly unready and unfit
for purpose. The rational approach would be for countries to not adopt
either and push for a deferment. Council of Australia held an
international press conference to discuss the World Health
Organisation’s proposed pandemic instruments that are due to be voted on
at the 77th World Health Assembly being held at the end of this month.
The
Aligned Council of Australia (“ACA”) is a group of over 37 Australian
organisations with over a million members “and growing,” It began in
February 2024 following a large number of groups coming together to call
for a full analysis and accountability of the public health response
since 2020 through a Covid-19 Royal Commission.
The press
conference was structured in a question-and-answer format where the
moderator put questions to each of the panellists followed by questions
from the press and the public.
Katie Ashby-Coppens, moderator
and member of the ACA steering committee, kicked off the press
conference by giving an update on the status of the negotiations of the
texts of the proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations
and the Pandemic Treaty, and the recent US and UK government reactions
to them.
During the first 56 minutes, Ashby-Coppens posed
questions to Professor Ramesh Thakur and Dr. David Bell. During the
following 30 minutes, Ashby-Coppens questioned Professor Augusto
Zimmerman and Professor Ian Brighthope. The conference ended with
panellists taking questions from the press and public...<<<Read More>>>...