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WHO: Informal Focused Consultation #1

The World Health Organization will be livestreaming an "Informal Focused Consultation" at 5am Pacific, 8am Eastern, 2pm Geneva time September 21, 2022.

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The Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) Bureau will be conducting the first of four informal focused consultations (IFCs) with experts, open to all WHO Member States and relevant stakeholders, on selected key issues.

Time and date: 14:00-17:00 Geneva time, September 21, 2022

  • 5am Pacific

  • 6am Mountain

  • 7am Central

  • 8am Eastern

  • 2pm Geneva

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE LIVE STREAM OR RECORDING

https://inb.who.int/home/informal-focused-consultations

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Call +1 310-256-3749 to leave a 3 minute audio comment.

The INB Bureau plans to hold four IFCs, to be held in September and October 2022. The consultations will provide a forum for interactive discussion between Member States, relevant stakeholders and subject matter experts to advance understanding of the work of the INB.

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The outcomes from the IFCs, along with the outcomes from the public hearings, written input from Member States and relevant stakeholders on the working draft, input from the second meeting of the INB, and input from regional consultations, will be utilized by the INB Bureau in its development of a Conceptual zero draft, to be discussed at the third meeting of the INB in December 2022.

Legal matters

  • Relationship between the pandemic agreement and other instruments, notably the International Health Regulations

  • Sovereignty

  • Institutional arrangements and alternatives

  • Structural and framework considerations

  • Ratification/accession

  • Entry into force

ADDITIONAL DETAILS:

https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2022/09/21/default-calendar/first-informal--focused-consultation-in-relation-to-a-new-international-instrument-on-pandemic-prevention--preparedness-and-response--legal-matters

At its second meeting, the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) decided that the INB Bureau would conduct informal, focused consultations (IFCs) with experts, open to all WHO Member States and relevant stakeholders, on selected key issues.

All IFCs will be fully virtual, with interpretation in all WHO official languages. Each will be chaired by an INB Bureau Co-chair and will have two parts:

  1. an interactive, moderated roundtable between independent experts during which the moderator will ask questions and stimulate input from and dialogue between the experts; and

  2. a discussion and reflection session, for Member States and relevant stakeholders, where questions and reflections may be sent through email or the meeting “chat” function.

There will be four IFCs. The first will focus on legal matters.

Topics to be covered

  • Relationship between the pandemic agreement and other instruments, notably the International Health Regulations

  • Sovereignty

  • Institutional arrangements and alternatives

  • Structural and framework considerations

  • Ratification/accession

  • Entry into force

Chair: Ms Precious Matsoso, INB Bureau Co-Chair

Moderator: Ms Emma Ross, Senior Research Fellow, Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Participating experts

External

  • Dr Ayelet Berman, National University of Singapore, Singapore

  • Professor Gian Luca Burci, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland

  • Professor Claudio Grossman, United Nations’ International Law Commission; American University Washington College of Law, United States of America

  • Professor Sam Halabi, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University, United States of America 

  • Professor Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town, South Africa

  • Professor Nilüfer Oral, United Nations’ International Law Commission; Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore, Singapore

  • Professor Matiangai Sirleaf, Francis King Carey School of Law, The University of Maryland, United States of America

  • Professor Nguyễn Hồng Thao, United Nations’ International Law Commission; Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam and National University of Hanoi, Vietnam 

  • Dr Pedro Villarreal, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Germany

 WHO Secretariat

  • Mr Steven Solomon, Principal Legal Officer, WHO Office of the Legal Counsel

Additional information

Mindful of the informal nature of the IFCs and the goal of stimulating full and frank discussion, the following will apply to all IFC sessions:

  • discussions at IFC sessions, including among participating experts, will in no way prejudice the positions of Member States or any other session participants;

  • no comment or question presented by session participants, including Member States, during the IFCs, will imply a view or position of Member States or other session participants; and

  • expert presentations will be provided solely for the consideration of Member States and will not themselves be sources of input to the Conceptual zero draft.

This is the thirtieth article in this series.

  1. Pandemic Treaty

  2. The People’s Treaty

  3. Speaking Truth To Power

  4. WAKE UP and Smell the Burning of Our Constitution

  5. Abolish the WHO

  6. Pandemic Mitigation Project

  7. An Open Letter to the WHO

  8. WE ARE IN A SPIRITUAL WAR

  9. SOUND THE ALARM

  10. Multilingual information regarding the proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations.

  11. THEY will control nothing, and WE will be free

  12. BREAK THE SPELL

  13. SEND THIS EMAIL TO CONGRESS

  14. URGENT: Speak Your Mind NOW

  15. NEWSPEAK

  16. SEEKING CLARIFICATION

  17. QUESTIONS

  18. Turn up the Heat

  19. We’ve Got Our Eye On WHO

  20. WE WON

  21. I AM SO PISSED OFF!

  22. YOUR OPINION IS REQUESTED

  23. TEN THINGS EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THE WHO'S PROPOSED "PANDEMIC TREATY"

  24. Get the United States OUT of the United Nations and The World Health Organization A.S.A.P.

  25. What is the government of the United Kingdom hiding?

  26. StopTheWHO.com

  27. #ScrewTheWHO

  28. Speak Your Mind

  29. The Pandemic is Over

  30. WHO: Informal Focused Consultation #1

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Heather H
Sep 26, 2022

What I want to know is if all these stooges vote their plans in can we even stop it?? I find it extremely hard to even believe an American president would hand over control to a NGO for any reason let alone be the one who brought the idea forward. He should be imprached and removed for doing it.

Africa saved us last time but that's it. One country? One country out of almost 200 thinks it a good idea to give the WHO all that power? I'm sure they are working on Africa, I can't imagine they will stand in the way this time. Is there anything we can do?? If so shouldn't we start like now??

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Paola Amaldi
Sep 24, 2022

Thank you James as ever. I have now listened to the whole FIFC session and found as per usual that is full of empty rethoric. i wonder whether we can give them unsolicited feedback on these sessions!

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