Negotiations start on WHO International “Pandemic Treaty”

On 3 March 2022, the EU Council adopted a decision to authorise the opening of negotiations for an international agreement on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response or “pandemic treaty“. [1]  In November 2021  the WHO noted this is because the “global response to COVID-19 was a disorganized, inequitable disaster”.

The intergovernmental negotiating body (INB) formed in December 2021, tasked with drafting and negotiating this “international instrument”, will deliver a progress report to the WHO’s 76th World Health Assembly in 2023, with the aim to adopt the international legally binding instrument by 2024, providing the WHO unprecedented powers. [2, 3]

This is the continuation of an “effort to make the WHO the centre of a One World Government” with their One Health agenda – WATCH

But the United States believe a new “Pandemic Treaty” is too slow, so in January 18, 2022 they have proposed changes to the existing IHR which the WHO D-G sent to Member states on January 20, 2022, they want these amendments rushed through at the May 22, 2022 World Health Assembly. [4]