pandemic
At a hearing held by the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic earlier this week, Sen. Mitt Romney (R–Utah) asked why there's "so much energy" around the question of whether the pandemic began in a lab or spilled over from a natural source. "We'll never be 100 percent sure about one or the other," said Romney. "Given that it could have been either, we know what action we need to take to protect from either….One, we should clean up the wet markets. And two, tighten the labs." In recent months, the idea that COVID might have origin...
Reason
After more than two years of working to prevent some of the problems seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, countries have given themselves another year to hammer out the final details of a pandemic treaty. In the weeks leading up to a May deadline that was not met, diplomats working on the negotiations told Euronews Health they would sometimes argue over a paragraph of text for three to four hours with long nights and intense discussions to meet an overly ambitious timeline. While several negotiators said they were optimistic about the prospect of coming to an agreement, they also expressed conce...
Euronews (English)
The president of the EU Council has described having "mixed feelings" following the failure last week of key United Nations-led talks on an international pandemic accord last week, which led to the initiative being delayed until May 2025. “On the one hand, I’m disappointed because I would’ve preferred a decision and I felt the momentum was now,” Charles Michel told a pooled media interview in Brussels Michel was among initiators of the pandemic treaty proposal during the Paris Peace Forum in November 2020. “There was a lack of political will and courage of some around the table, and this is ju...
Euronews (English)
The World Health Organization (WHO) opened its annual meeting on Monday with government ministers and other top envoys hoping to reinforce global preparedness for the next pandemic. But the most ambitious project, to adopt a pandemic “treaty,” has been shelved for now after more than two years of work failed to produce a draft that countries could unite around by last week. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus insisted it was not a failure, saying the task was "immense" with member states operating on a “very ambitious timeline". He said negotiators underwent sleepless nights, addin...
Euronews (English)
Geneva (AFP) - Negotiations on a landmark global agreement on handling future pandemics came to a close on Friday without finalising a deal, though countries voiced the desire to keep pushing for an accord. Scarred by the devastation caused by Covid-19 -- which killed millions of people, shredded economies and crippled health systems -- countries have spent two years trying to hammer out binding commitments on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. But the talks gathered momentum only in the last few weeks, as the fast-approaching deadline set for before next week's start of the World...
AFP
By Robin MILLARD Genève (AFP) - Le temps presse pour les pays membres de l'OMS qui tentent de boucler vendredi, censé être le dernier délai, un accord mondial sur la prévention et la lutte contre les pandémies après plus de deux ans de travail. Les négociations ont déjà été prolongées à plusieurs reprises mais, cette fois-ci, la fin des débats semble en vue avec la tenue du 27 mai au 1er juin de l'Assemblée mondiale de la santé (AMS) à Genève. Qu'un plan global ait été achevé ou non, le groupe chargé des tractations devra rendre compte de son travail devant l'AMS, organe suprême de l'OMS dont ...
AFP (Français)
Washington (AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday voiced doubt for the near-term prospects of a global pandemic agreement under negotiation that has drawn a backlash in several Western countries. Jarred by the Covid-19 pandemic, World Health Organization member countries have spent more than two years thrashing out an accord on future pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. Talks are set to go to the wire on Friday, after which the annual assembly of WHO member states, which opens on Monday in Geneva, will decide where the process goes next. "Where it currently stand...
AFP
By Robin MILLARD Genève (AFP) - Faute de consensus, les pays qui tentent depuis plus de deux ans de boucler un accord sur la prévention et la lutte contre les pandémies ont décidé vendredi de poursuivre les négociations et sauvegarder les progrès accomplis. "Ils ont travaillé très dur pour aller aussi loin que possible et trouver un terrain d'entente mais nous n'y sommes pas encore. Nous allons donc poursuivre notre travail", a déclaré le co-président Roland Driece à quelques journalistes au siège de l'Organisation mondiale de la santé à Genève. C'est l'Assemblée mondiale de la santé (AMS), l'...
AFP (Français)
By Robin MILLARD Genève (AFP) - Les négociations marathon pour tenter de trouver un consensus historique sur la prévention et la lutte contre les pandémies entrent dans leur dernière ligne droite vendredi à Genève, mais un accord reste incertain. Il ne reste a priori qu'une journée si le calendrier et la date butoir du 10 mai sont respectés, après deux ans de discussions et de marchandages acharnés. Le souvenir des millions de morts, de la souffrance, des injustices et des immenses dégâts économiques de la pandémie de Covid-19, qui avait incité les 194 pays membres de l'Organisation mondiale d...
AFP (Français)
By Robin MILLARD Genève (AFP) - Il s'agit de protéger efficacement et équitablement le monde de futures pandémies: les négociations de la dernière chance commencent lundi à l'OMS pour trouver un consensus autour d'un projet d'accord sur un texte déjà édulcoré de certains de ses aspects les plus disputés. Après deux années de travaux, les négociateurs ont dû se rendre à l'évidence le mois dernier: il leur faut plus de temps pour tenter de se mettre d'accord sur ce texte historique sur la prévention, la préparation et la réponse aux futures pandémies. Le temps presse, il doit être adopté lors de...
AFP (Français)
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