The consent between the member countries had been negotiated for three years; The text will be discussed at the next World Health Assembly in May
After more than three years of negotiations, the member countries of World Health Organization (WHO) approved on Wednesday 16, a historical agreement to prevent and fight pandemics.
“Tonight scores an important stage on our journey together towards a safer world,” said the general manager who told Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to the delegates gathered in Geneva. “The nations of the world made history today,” he celebrated.
The United Nations Health Agency explained that its members have “a big step forward in their efforts to make the world safer against pandemics”.
The project, approved “will be discussed at the next World Health Assembly in May,” said who.
Five years after the Covid-19 pandemic, with millions of deaths and global economic collapse, the pact should serve to prepare the world better to face a new pandemic.
This agreement, stressed Tedros, also shows that “multilateralism is alive and well and that in our divided world, nations can still work together to find a common point and a shared response to common threats”.
The final tract of negotiations occurred in a crisis in the international order and by the global health system caused by cuts to humanitarian aid decreed by the President of the United States Donald Trump.
The republican magnate, which also ordered the withdrawal of the United States from WHO, threatened to impose rates to pharmaceutical products. /AFP
Source: Terra
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