The WHO Member States agreed on the wording of the proposal. pandemic agreement

Geneva. The Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) agreed on Wednesday night on the wording. Pandemic Treaty focusing on better preparation for and combat pandemics.

The breakthrough agreement has been discussed for several years.

« After more than three years of intensive negotiations, the WHO Member States have taken a significant step forward in efforts to increase the security of the world against pandemics by drawing up a draft agreement, which will be assessed at the upcoming World Health Assembly in May, » the UN said in its statement.

The draft agreement guarantees the adoption of specific measures to prevent pandemic, building research and development capacities, facilitating the transfer of technology and related knowledge, as well as skills and professional knowledge for the production of health products related to Pandemia, mobilization the action of measures.

Related article

Related article Pfizer responds to Fica with a boiler: Our vaccine does not change DNA Read

The proposal also confirms the sovereignty of countries in dealing with public health issues within their borders and stipulates that “none of the provisions of the draft agreement must be interpreted by the fact that the WHO is to guide, order, amend or prescribe national laws or policies or to entrust states to adopt specific measures.

« The countries of the world have been in history in Geneva today, » said WHO CEO Tedros Adhan Ghebreyesus.

« By achieving a pandemic treaty, they have not only introduced a generational agreement to increase the security of the world, but also showed that multilateralism is alive and healthy and that in our divided world, countries can still cooperate to find a common basis and a common response to threats, » he added.

Negotiations on the final version of the Treaty in Geneva were held in times of serious crisis of multilateralism and global health system, launched by drastic truncation of international aid President USA Donald Trumpwrites AFP. The US is by far the largest donor in the humanitarian area.

The US delegation did not participate in the Geneva negotiations, as Trump decided to leave the WHO.