The Intergovernmental Negotiation Body (INB), which was liable for preparing the alleged pandemic treaty, held another gathering on this issue. The Treaty itself is an global agreement that aims to strengthen the readiness of the WHO associate States to counter and combat the effects of the pandemic. At the same time, the work on the treaty is controversial, focusing on expanding the competence of the WHO or limiting the sovereignty of the associate States of that organisation. The result of the last gathering of INB is simply a fresh timetable which sets out the timetable for the work on the Treaty for at least the next six months.
Pandemic Treaty (Pandemic Agreement) is an global agreement to make a global strategy of adequate preparedness, prevention and prevention of the spread of infectious diseases. WHO work by the Intergovernmental Negotiative Body (Intergovernmental Negotiating Body) are a consequence to negative experiences from the COVID-19 pandemic period, erstwhile it turned out that both the WHO and the countries making up the organisation are not adequately prepared for a fresh kind of pandemic threat.
According to the first plans, the pandemic treaty was to be adopted together with amendments to the global wellness Regulations (International wellness Regulations) at the 77th session of the planet wellness Assembly (WHA), which took place at the turn of May and June. Work on the treaty, however, has been greatly delayed, with the consequence that the treaty will most likely be adopted at the next WHA session in 2025 (possibly at a peculiar session inactive this year).
In fresh weeks, however, next INB meeting. During the meeting, a fresh co-chair was elected – Frenchwoman Anne-Claire Amprou, who replaced Dutchwoman Roland Driece. WHO Chairman, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated that "The consensus on outstanding issues is possible in a comparatively short time if public wellness is given priority". At the same time, he stressed the importance of the work carried out in the WHO and highlighted the request for a appropriate usage of the two-day gathering to make the essential changes to the draft global agreement.
In the further part of the discussion, representatives of Ethiopia, South Africa and Indonesia expressed their desire to complete the treaty this year so that it could be adopted at a peculiar session of the planet wellness Assembly in December. On the another hand, the typical of the United States warned against haste, pointing out that "there was small time left to scope consensus on many complex issues".
Mr Zampetti, representing the countries of the European Union, drew attention to the overlap of certain provisions of the global wellness Regulations and the draft pandemic treaty, calling on the WHO Secretariat to guide the INB's work to order any areas in the text.
In connection with the July gathering of INB, on the website of this group published schedule work planned for the next year. Subsequent meetings of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body are planned from 9 to 11 September and from 4 to 15 December this year. The 15th of December was designated as the last day on which a peculiar session of the planet wellness Assembly (to adopt the Treaty) could possibly be decided. In the event of failure of the above plans, it is indicated at the dates of 2 consecutive possible dates of the INB meetings, setting them for December 2024 and February 2025.
– The last gathering of the INB was of a kind of order nature, resulting from the failure to meet the deadline previously set for the final version of the treaty or controversy about the wording of the individual provisions of subsequent drafts of the global agreement. This is not surprising, since a large part of the project's provisions address many different, highly complex issues specified as "access to pathogens and benefit sharing". It is so hard to make a more concrete assessment of the last meeting, especially since the website of this committee has not yet published another version of the draft pandemic treaty. However, the Ordo Iuris Institute continues to monitor the work carried out in the WHO, informing about threats and dangers, and identifying areas where affirmative changes have been achieved," said Patryk Ignaszczak of the Center for global Law.
Source: Ordo Iuris
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