The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) is poised to seal a global pandemic treaty that will conclude after weeks of closed-door talks in Geneva, Switzerland.
As next week’s annual gathering of the U.N. subsidiary’s 194 member states, organizers are pushing for the deal to be closed.
According to AFP, the globalist health bureaucrats must report back to the World Health Assembly regardless of whether or not they have a finalised text for the assembly to consider.
Breitbart reported: Civil society groups following the talks from outside the meeting hall seem less than enthused an agreement will be forthcoming.
“They are negotiating, enthusiastically fighting for a speedy conclusion — but it’s not happening,” K. M. Gopakumar, senior researcher with the Third World Network, told AFP.
Giving the talks very little chance of successfully concluding on time, he said he thought countries would likely press for discussions to continue and hold talks about more talks further down the line.
Critics have already accused the organization of bureaucratic overreach in pushing to seize control of how the world responds to any future pandemic along the lines of the coronavirus outbreak.
Over 125,000 people in Britain alone have signed a petition demanding a referendum on any decision to join the so-called Pandemic Treaty.
Others suggested countries might opt to present the assembly with a skeleton deal and show agreement in principle.
The rolling draft agreement is not being made public, but a version as it stood on Thursday, seen by AFP, showed large sections have been approved. The outlet further noted:
The main disputes revolve around issues of access and equity: access to pathogens detected within countries, and access to pandemic-fighting products such as vaccines derived from that knowledge.
Other tricky topics are sustainable financing, pathogen surveillance, supply chains, and the equitable distribution of not only tests, treatments and jabs, but also the means to produce them.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has already dampened hopes of a deal, saying a conclusion this week seemed “very unlikely,” as Breitbart News reported.
Nonetheless, Washington was still working to ensure that “we’re better prepared for next time,” he said.
