Opposition from African delegates to the 75th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, has forced hours of informal dickering on possible revisions to President Joe Biden's proposals to grant new powers to the World Health Organization to deal with viral pandemics.
As previously reported by The Epoch Times, Biden's 13 proposed amendments to the UN's International Health Regulations that govern WHO operations grant broad new powers to Director-General Tedros Adhanhom Ghebreysus, a former Ethiopian government minister who has been in the role since 2017.
The report said the new working group will "Invite proposed amendments to be submitted by 30 Sept. 2022. All such proposed amendments to be communicated by the director-general to all state parties without delay; request the WGIHR to convene its organizational meeting no later than 15 November 2022.".
Earlier this week, HHS assistant secretary for global affairs Loyce Pace alluded to the Biden amendments without acknowledging the necessity for the informal negotiations.
Pace told the assembly that the Biden "Administration believes in the need for strong global relationships to combat COVID-19 and to prevent and prepare for future health emergencies."
The Biden proposals have sparked a growing furor in the United States among critics who contend the amendments would amount to ceding of some portion of American sovereignty to WHO in the event of another pandemic like the one that has killed more one million Americans and in excess of six million people worldwide.
The Biden amendments are being defended by FactCheck.org, a media organization at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania that claims to "Monitor the factual accuracy of what is said" by political and other figures on the issues of the day.
Saturday, May 28, 2022
Opposition Forces Back-Room Talks Seeking Revisions to Biden's 13 WHO Amendments
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