Members of the World Health Organisation (“WHO”) adopted a global
pandemic accord on Tuesday, 20 May 2025; 124 countries voted in favour,
no countries voted against, while 11 countries abstained and 46 countries were not present. The total votes cast don’t add up, but those are the numbers WHO has declared.
For
the countries that abstained – of which, shamefully, the UK was not one
– their concerns included loss of national sovereignty, lack of legal
clarity and the risk of unelected institutions imposing policy.
Please note: The Pandemic Agreement has been called various names over the years. It has also been referred to as the Pandemic Treaty, Pandemic Accord and WHO Convention Agreement + (“WHO CA+”).
To
ensure the Pandemic Agreement was adopted by the easiest possible
route, WHO had determined that a vote need not take place, and instead
it would be adopted by “consensus.”
Surprised that a “democratic
institution” did not want to have a vote, Slovakia requested that a
vote on the draft Pandemic Agreement take place, which Tedros the
Terrorist attempted to stop hours before the vote was scheduled.
The
vote was conducted by “a show of hands,” by “representatives” holding
up their name plates, and then people counting the number of name plates
raised. Which way countries voted was not recorded. It all sounds a bit
dubious and fraught with error, with no way of checking whether an
error, inadvertently or deliberately, has been made. A “show of hands”
might be a good way to gauge how many bags of sweets to buy for a school
outing, it certainly isn’t the way to vote on a global agreement.
To watch a video of the vote, go to WHO’s 78th World Health Assembly webpage, HERE,
and select the ‘Committee A’ tab shown under the current video. Then
from the list of ‘Committee A’ videos, select ‘WHA78 – Committee A,
Second Committee A Meeting, 19/05/2025 – 18:50-21:40’. The “show of
hands” voting begins at timestamp 02:47:20. The results were (see
timestamp 03:08:08):
Number of members entitled to vote, 181
Number of members absent, 46
Number of abstentions, 11
Number of members present and voting, 124
Number of votes in favour, 124
Number of votes against, 0
Number of votes required for the majority of two-thirds of members present and voting, 83
Yes,
the Chair read out that the number of members present and voting was
the same as the number of votes in favour; 124. In other words, the
Chair claimed that all countries that had representatives present at the
meeting voted in favour of the Pandemic Agreement. When no name plates
were raised during the time allotted for votes against the Agreement,
the so-called country representatives gave themselves a standing
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