by Rhoda Wilson, Expose News:
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.
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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 13 March 2024.
Related: WHO’s Pandemic Treaty negotiations are going very badly
In an article posted on Thursday, James Roguski highlighted some serious issues with a more recent version of WHO’s proposed Pandemic Agreement which is labelled A/INB/9R/3 and dated April 2024.
His article titled ‘Bullsh*t’ includes a 5-minute video and written explanation of the issues in the latest draft, as well as a copy of the draft that can be downloaded. You can find his article HERE.
Below we have picked up some of the issues Roguski has alerted us to and fleshed them out to give them some context.
Proposal for the WHO Pandemic Agreement (A/INB/9R/3)
The newly released draft of the proposed Pandemic Agreement begins: “The Parties to the WHO Pandemic Agreement … have agreed as follows …”
As defined in the draft, “Party” means a State or regional economic integration organisation that has consented to be bound by this Pandemic Agreement.
According to the draft Agreement, a “regional economic integration organisation” means “an organisation that is composed of several sovereign states and to which its Member States have transferred competence over a range of matters, including the authority to make decisions binding on its Member States in respect of those matters.”
Although it’s not stipulated which regional economic integration organisations WHO selects to participate in its decision-making – concurrently affecting the lives of people living in several countries – a list of regional economic integration organisations the United Nations collaborates with and supports includes:
- African Union (AU)
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
- Arab League (AL)
- Arab Maghreb Union (AMU)
- Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
- Council of Europe (CoE)
- Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU)
- European Union (EU)
- South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
- Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
- Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization (AALCO)
- Union for the Mediterranean (UfM)
- Union of South American Nations (USAN)
Article 5
Article 5 of the draft is titled ‘One Health’.
The draft Agreement defines the One Health approach as an “integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems. It recognises that the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants and the wider environment (including ecosystems) is closely linked and interdependent.”
According to Article 5, the Parties that sign up to the draft pledge to promote a collaborative One Health approach to prevent and respond to pandemics, recognising the interconnectedness of people, animals, and the environment.
The Parties commit to addressing the root causes of pandemics and integrating interventions into pandemic prevention plans.
Each Party pledges to protect human, animal, and plant health by implementing national policies reflecting a One Health approach, involving communities in policy development and response, and promoting or establishing One Health joint training programs and continuing education programmes for human, animal and environmental health workforces.
