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According to The Telegraph, the United Kingdom is refusing to sign the World Health Organization’s pandemic treaty.
The outlet said the UK is “firmly against” vaccine-related commitments that require the country to “give away a fifth of its jabs.”
The UK “will not sign any form of the pandemic agreement that undermines Britain’s sovereignty,” The Telegraph stated.
Britain is refusing to sign the WHO’s pandemic treaty, The Telegraph newspaper has reported.
The UK is “firmly against such vaccine-related commitments, and will not sign any form of pandemic agreement that undermines Britain’s sovereignty.”https://t.co/WclW3cWEHV
— gript (@griptmedia) May 9, 2024
The Telegraph reports:
At the peak of the Covid emergency, nations planned to sign a legally binding document, informally known as the pandemic treaty, or pandemic accord, that would force countries to tackle the next global health emergency in a united way.
Under the terms of the latest draft of the treaty, now in its ninth and final iteration, all member states, including the UK, would be obliged to give up 20 per cent of “pandemic-related health products” to other countries and would be prevented from stockpiling supplies. This would include therapeutics, PPE and vaccines.
The WHO document states the UN-run agency would get “real-time access” to 10 per cent of these products for free, and 10 per cent “at affordable prices”.
The divisive document says countries should “set aside a portion of its total procurement of relevant diagnostics, therapeutics or vaccines in a timely manner for use in countries facing challenges… and avoid having national stockpiles of pandemic-related health products”.
A source familiar with the negotiations said: “The UK could not accept these proposals in their current form – and they have not been agreed.”
“Britain is refusing to sign the WHO pandemic treaty while it insists that the UK would have to give away 20% of its therapeutics, PPE and vaccines.”
— James Melville
(@JamesMelville) May 9, 2024
UsForThemUK wrote:
Critical session in the UK House of Lords yesterday covering the @WHO Pandemic Accords
Lord Strathcarron calls for a DEFERRAL of this month’s World Health Assembly vote “so we can have proper Parliamentary scrutiny of what the Government is signing us up to”.
As far as we are aware Lord Strathcarron’s challenge is the first time that the UK Government has been challenged in Parliament on the LEGALITY (or otherwise) of proceeding with the WHA vote in May 2024 given the breach of the four month notice period required under Article 55(2) IHR.
@IanStrathcarron: “The fact remains that Article 55(2) clearly says that the [WHO] is required to give Member States four months written notice before the amendments are agreed at the end of this month and it has clearly failed to do so…bearing this in mind, and that the UK Government has been less than transparent about the UK’s aims in these negotiations and the WHO’s woeful performance in the Covid pandemic would the Minister agree that … it would be wise to delay the votes until the next WHA so we can have proper Parliamentary scrutiny of what the Government is signing us up to.”
WATCH:
Critical session in the UK House of Lords yesterday covering the @WHO Pandemic Accords
Lord Strathcarron calls for a DEFERRAL of this month’s World Health Assembly vote “so we can have proper Parliamentary scrutiny of what the Government is signing us up to”.
As far as we… pic.twitter.com/khabyZIVKp
— UsForThemUK
(@UsforThemUK) May 8, 2024
Per Breitbart:
“We will only support the adoption of the accord and accept it on behalf of the UK, if it is firmly in the UK national interest and respects national sovereignty,” a spokesperson for Britain’s Department of Health and Social Care confirmed in a statement to Reuters.
The spokesperson did not comment on the details of the specific accord proposals, adding “no proposals have been agreed” as other countries also rally to reject the plea for a “global pandemic treaty.”
The new pact – first proposed in 2021 – and a series of updates since to existing rules for dealing with pandemics from the W.H.O. are intended to establish central control in the wake of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
One of the main points of disagreement is the issue of sharing drugs and vaccines.
W.H.O. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said last week that countries need to agree to the accord within the deadline to help fight future pandemics.
He added countries who did not fully agree with the text to at least refrain from blocking consensus among W.H.O.’s 194 member states.
As Tedros works towards getting sovereign national governments to accede to his plan, voters in the UK are not so sure.
The WHO’s pandemic treaty and IHR amendments have also faced resistance in the United States.
Last week, all 49 Republican U.S. Senators, led by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), penned a letter to Joe Biden urging to withdraw support from expanding the WHO’s pandemic authority.
