WHO: Informal Focused Consultation #1
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.
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
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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.
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:
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:
an interactive, moderated roundtable between independent experts during which the moderator will ask questions and stimulate input from and dialogue between the experts; and
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.
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WHO: Informal Focused Consultation #1
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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??
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!