The Director -General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanum Guerberesus, confirmed on Monday that it is time to reach an international agreement on epidemics because if it does not happen now, it will never happen.
Tidros Adhanum Gebrisos said during the opening of the 13th round of negotiations at the headquarters of the World Health Organization in Geneva, that no country can face the next epidemic alone.
3 days after the United States officially announced that it will no longer participate in the negotiations, he added: “We are in a decisive moment while preparing to complete the epidemic agreement in a timely manner before (the World Health Society) in May.
He continued: “It must happen now, otherwise it will never happen. But I am sure that you will choose now because you know how serious it is.”
These negotiations aim to finish the agreement before the main annual meeting of all member states of the World Health Organization in May.
In December, the organization’s member states decided to formulate an agreement on the prevention of epidemics and preparation to avoid the grave errors that were committed during the Cofide-19 period.
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Major questions
However, major questions, including those related to the exchange of data on emerging pathogens and the benefits that can be achieved, remain, in addition to those related to vaccines, tests, treatments, and epidemics.
Tedros said on Monday: “You remember the lessons that were extracted from the hardest from the Coffee-19, which killed about 20 million people and is still killing. That is why we are here to protect future generations from the impact of future epidemics.”
He stressed that the question about “the next pandemic is not related to the issue of whether it will happen or not, but rather it will happen. There are examples everywhere around us: Ebola, Marburg, measles, malaria and influenza …”.
Hours after returning to the White House, Donald Trump signed a decree with which the United States is withdrawn from the World Health Organization. His decree states that Washington will stop negotiating during the withdrawal phase, which is scheduled to continue for a year.
Tidros said on Monday that Washington officially informed the World Health Organization on Friday the withdrawal of negotiations.
The Director General of the World Health Organization, who hopes that Washington will back away from its decision, stressed that “no country can protect itself on its own,” adding that “bilateral agreements do not fulfill the purpose.”
NGOs urged the negotiations in the negotiations member states of the World Health Organization to reach an agreement.