The official concluding statements by the UN and WHO on the completion of the UN Basic Meeting (UNGA) in New York relating to the High-level Assembly on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response are summarized as follows:
United Nations
The high-level assembly on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response will concentrate on the theme: “Creating and sustaining political momentum and solidarity for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response“. Plenary Phase: Statements by Member States and members of the United Nations specialised companies. Issued on 20 Sept 2023.
WHO assertion on the high-level assembly on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response:
The World Well being Group welcomed immediately’s historic dedication proven by world leaders, on the UNGA, to strengthen the worldwide cooperation, coordination, governance, and funding wanted to forestall a repeat of the devastating well being and socioeconomic impression attributable to COVID-19, make the world higher ready for future pandemic, and get again on observe to reaching the Sustainable Improvement Objectives.
“The primary-ever head of state summit on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response is a historic milestone within the pressing drive to make all individuals of the world safer, and higher shielded from the devastating impacts of pandemics,” stated Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-Basic. “I welcome this dedication by world leaders to supply the political assist and course wanted in order that WHO, governments and all concerned can shield individuals’s well being and take concrete steps in direction of investing in native capacities, guaranteeing fairness and supporting the worldwide emergency well being structure that the world wants.”
The political declaration, accredited by Mr Dennis Francis, President of the 78th United Nations Basic Meeting (2023), and the results of negotiations below the ready management of Ambassadors Gilad Erdan of Israel and Omar Hilale of Morocco, underscored the pivotal function performed by WHO because the “directing and coordinating authority on worldwide well being,” and the necessity to “commit additional to sustainable financing that gives satisfactory and predictable funding to the WHO, which allows it to have the assets wanted to fulfil its core capabilities. “Issued on 20 Sept 2023
Neither the UN nor the WHO assertion mentions the variety of world leaders or heads of state, who accredited the essential WHO paperwork, the severely revised (greater than 90 factors of revision) Worldwide Well being Rules (IHR), together with the Pandemic Treaty – which is definitely now not a treaty, as it’s deliberate to ram it by in the course of the subsequent World Well being Meeting (WHA) in Could 2024 – making the brand new IHR efficient with no vote. See full interview with Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger right here.
