{"id":437005,"date":"2024-03-21T09:49:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T09:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/03\/21\/call-for-urgent-agreement-on-international-deal-to-prepare-for-and-prevent-future-pandemics\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T09:49:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T09:49:35","slug":"call-for-urgent-agreement-on-international-deal-to-prepare-for-and-prevent-future-pandemics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/03\/21\/call-for-urgent-agreement-on-international-deal-to-prepare-for-and-prevent-future-pandemics\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for urgent agreement on international deal to prepare for and prevent future pandemics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A high-powered\u00a0intervention by 23 former national Presidents, 22 former Prime Ministers, a former UN General Secretary and 3 Nobel\u00a0Laureates is being made today to press\u00a0for an urgent agreement from international negotiators on a Pandemic Accord, under the Constitution of the World Health Organizaion,\u00a0to bolster the world\u2019s collective preparedness and response to future pandemics.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Former UN General Secretary Ban-ki Moon,\u00a0New Zealand\u2019s former Prime Minister Helen Cark, former UK Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and\u00a0Tony Blair, former Malawi President Joyce Banda, former Peru President Franciso Sagasti,\u00a0and 3 former Presidents of the UN General Assembly are amongst 100+ global leaders, from all continents and fields of politics, economics and health management who today\u00a0issued a joint open letter<\/a> urging\u00a0accelerated progress\u00a0in current negotiations to reach the world\u2019s first ever multi-lateral agreement on\u00a0pandemic preparedness and prevention.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cA pandemic\u00a0accord is critical to safeguard our collective future. Only a strong global pact on pandemics can protect future generations\u00a0from a repeat of the COVID-19 crisis, which led to millions of deaths and caused widespread social and economic devastation, owing not least to insufficient international collaboration,\u201d the leaders write in their joint letter.<\/p>\n

In the throes of the COVID-19 disaster which, officially, claimed 7 million lives and wiped $2 trillion from the world economy, inter-governmental\u00a0negotiations to reach international agreement on future pandemic non-proliferation were begun in December 2021 between 194 of the world\u2019s 196 nations. Nations set themselves the deadline of May 2024 by which they should reach agreement on what would be the\u00a0world\u2019s first ever Pandemic Accord.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Ninth round of Pandemic Accord negotiations<\/a>\u00a0are underway this week and next. Signatories of today\u2019s open letter hope their combined influence willencourage all 194 nations to maintain the courage of their Covid-years conviction and make their own collective\u00a0ambition of an international pandemic protocol a reality by\u00a0the intended May deadline \u00a0to enable ratification by the World Health\u00a0Assembly\u00a0at its May 2024 Annual General Assembly.<\/p>\n

And they urge negotiators \u201cto redouble their efforts\u201d to meet the imminent deadline and not let their efforts be blown off course\u00a0by malicious misinformation campaigning against the WHO, the international organisation which would be tasked with implementing the new health accord.<\/p>\n

Taking a swipe at those who wrongly believe national sovereignty may be undermined by this major international step forward for public\u00a0health the signatories say \u201cthere is no time to waste\u201d and they call on the leaders of the 194 nations taking part in the current negotiations to \u201credouble their efforts to complete the accord by the May deadline.\u201d<\/p>\n

The letter, hosted on the website of The Office of Gordon and Sarah Brown states, \u201cCountries are doing this not because of some dictum\u00a0from the WHO \u2013 like the negotiations, participation in any instrument would be entirely voluntary \u2013 but because they need what the accord can and must offer. In fact, a pandemic accord would deliver vast and universally shared benefits, including greater capacity\u00a0to detect new and dangerous pathogens, access to information about pathogens detected elsewhere in the world, and timely and equitable delivery of tests, treatments, vaccines, and other lifesaving tools.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs countries enter what should be the final stages of the negotiations, governments must work to refute and debunk false claims about\u00a0the accord. At the same time, negotiators must ensure that the agreement lives up to its promise to prevent and mitigate pandemic-related risks. This requires, for example, provisions aimed at ensuring that when another pandemic threat does arise, all relevant\u00a0responses \u2013 from reporting the identification of risky pathogens to delivering tools like tests and vaccines on an equitable basis \u2013 are implemented quickly and effectively. As the COVID-19 pandemic showed, collaboration between the public and private sectors\u00a0focused on advancing the public good is also essential.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA new pandemic threat will emerge; there is no excuse not to be ready for it. It is thus imperative to build an effective, multisectoral,\u00a0and multilateral approach to pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response. Given the unpredictable nature of public-health risks, a global strategy must embody a spirit of openness and inclusiveness. There is no time to waste, which is why we are calling\u00a0on all national leaders to redouble their efforts to complete the accord by the May deadline.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBeyond protecting countless lives and livelihoods, the timely delivery of a global pandemic accord would send a powerful message:\u00a0even in our fractured and fragmented world, international cooperation can still deliver global solutions to global problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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