Posted on 09/27/2023 12:42:37 PM PDT by Chuckster
Although the process of drafting a pandemic accord has been transparently informed to global communities in 2022 and 2023, there has been a substantial amount of misinformation related to the contents of the WHO Convention, Agreement, or Other International Instrument on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response (WHO CA+) circulated on platforms such as YouTube and X (formerly Twitter). This misinformation includes assertions that this pandemic treaty threatens national sovereignty, that WHO would deploy troops to enforce the treaty, and that national armed forces would be deployed to implement the treaty under UN orders. There have been rumours of vaccine mandates and digital passports enabling WHO to track individuals’ movements,1 concerns about WHO's authority to sanction countries, and opposition to ceding authority to WHO, among others.2
All these claims are categorically false and have been debunked by independent media outlets and fact checkers. The spread of fake news and misinformation has had adverse effects, leading to negative attitudes from the public and parliamentarians towards the pandemic accord.3
Sovereignty stands as one of the key guiding principles in the proposed bureau text. Sovereignty entails that WHO member states, in accordance with the UN Charter and general principles of international law, possess the sovereign right to enact and implement legislation in alignment with their health policies by upholding the purposes and objectives of the WHO CA+ and carrying out the obligations under the WHO CA+ in a manner consistent with the principles of the sovereign equality and the territorial integrity of member states and that of non-intervention in the domestic affairs of other member states. The bureau text includes provisions safeguarding national sovereignty, which has been consistently emphasised by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) during negotiations.
The WHO CA+ was drafted by countries through the INB's processes and is expected to be agreed upon by the World Health Assembly in 2024. This step will not give the WHO CA+ international legal effect until an as yet undetermined number of countries ratify, at which point it will become part of international law, binding those countries that have agreed to it. The right of a sovereign state to ratify the accord, or not to ratify it, is not subject to WHO overruling, but rather is part of the autonomy of each nation.
WHO's powers are delineated in a legally binding international constitution that confines its authority to undertaking international health work. WHO does not hold jurisdiction over national health work. The WHO Director-General and staff cannot enforce decisions, such as imposing a lockdown, mandating vaccination, or dictating the opening or closing of borders. Such decisions remain within the sovereign domain of each country.
WHO convened global experts through the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization to produce recommendations on COVID-19 vaccines4 and heterologous vaccine schedules.5 WHO has never advocated for vaccine mandates. As members of the INB Bureau, we affirm that the contents of the bureau text fully adhere to the principle of states’ sovereignty.
We declare no competing interests. All authors are members or former members of the Bureau of the INB. No medical writers were involved in developing this Correspondence. This Correspondence neither represents the position of each bureau member's country of origin nor prejudges the ongoing INB discussion or conclusions.
Your subjugation may vary.
Well, it's been debunked by fact checkers.
Good enough for me. Nothing to see here. /s
Don’t get me started on “Fact checkers”
Any time I see that term, I just substitute "shills and bots".
“independent media outlets”
And just pray tell is such an extinct creature doing opining? Did some sorcerer read its bones?
Sovereignty stands as one of the key guiding principles in the proposed bureau text. Sovereignty entails that WHO member states, in accordance with the UN Charter and general principles of international law, possess the sovereign right to enact and implement legislation in alignment with their health policies by upholding the purposes and objectives of the WHO CA+ and carrying out the obligations under the WHO CA+ …
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No truly sovereign nation can carry out any obligations to a world governing body without eventually undermining its own sovereignty.
“carrying out the obligations under the WHO CA+ in a manner consistent with the principles of the sovereign equality and the territorial integrity of member states”
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