Yesterday was a good day for the world. After two years of arduous discussions, the member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) failed to reach agreement on the text of the international pandemic treaty. Negotiations will resume in May and are expected to fail again.
The multinational pharmaceutical companies continue to pressure the 194 countries of the WHO to approve a treaty that will amplify the disaster of confinements, masks, safety distance, hydrogel, antigen tests, health passports, paranoias, vaccines....
The ninth and final round of negotiations began on March 18 and ended yesterday without a final text. "They are not far from reaching an agreement," WHO director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at the end of the discussions at the organization's headquarters in Geneva.
The discussions began in February 2022, and countries aimed to formally adopt the text at the next World Health Assembly, which begins May 27 in Geneva.
But after two years major sticking points remain, and the draft agreement remains plagued by bracketed draft language pointing to possible alternatives.
Bangladesh, which represents a group of 31 WHO member countries, argues that public health must come before commercial interests and therefore opposes the international treaty.
The discussions are all the more difficult because, in order to disguise their privatization, WHO members reach agreements by consensus and finding common ground takes many years.
However, the hope of finding an agreement is not completely over and countries must decide whether to allow additional days of negotiations, from April 29 to May 10.
The office of the intergovernmental negotiating body, which is leading the talks, will draft a new text by April 18 and aims to finalize the discussions by May 5.
With the proposed modifications, the current draft has grown from 30 to nearly 100 pages. Some participants want the office to reduce it to just 20 to save face and make it appear that the treaty is being approved by an assembly of countries from around the world.
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