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WHO could gain powers to impose lockdown on UK
MPs fear new treaty designed to increase the organisation’s powers would enable it to enforce border closures and vaccine passports
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/05/25/who-pandemic-treaty-lockdown-uk-ministers-fear/
A new “pandemic treaty” under discussion
Lockdown measures could be imposed on the UK by the World Health Organisation (WHO)
Under sweeping new powers
Member states
Obliged to follow the agency’s instructions,
Force Britain to spend five per cent of its health budget on preparing for another virus outbreak
Plus a proportion of GDP
Plans to increase the WHO’s powers
Require countries to hand over the recipe of vaccines
To counter misinformation
Enforce border closures
Quarantine measures
Vaccine passports
Conservative MPs
Written to ministers,
“ambition evident…for the WHO to transition from an advisory organisation to a controlling international authority”
Urge the Foreign Office to block powers
that “appear to intrude materially into the UK’s ability to make its own rules and control its own budgets”.
Changes to make WHO advice ‘binding’
Part of post pandemic plans, WHO’s International Health Regulations
First proposed in 2021 by world leaders
Improve alert systems, data-sharing, production of vaccines
“foster an all of government and all of society approach”.
Now, 300 proposed amendments to the IHRs
WHO’s advice “binding”
“recognise WHO as the guidance and coordinating authority of international public health response…and undertake to follow WHO’s recommendations in their international public health response”.
‘Particularly worrying’
Six conservative MPs, Esther McVey
Written to Andrew Mitchell, (Foreign Office minister),
to call for a Commons vote on the draft treaty and regulations before they are signed.
Ms McVey
There is, rightly, growing concern about the WHO’s Pandemic Treaty and International Health Regulations.
The plans represent a significant shift for the organisation,
from a member-led advisory body to a health authority with powers of compulsion.
This is particularly worrying when you consider the WHO’s poor track record on providing consistent, clear and scientifically sound advice for managing international disease outbreaks
(Sir John Redwood, David Davis, Philip Davies, Sir Christopher Chope and Danny Kruger)
Mr Kruger
“Coordination and cooperation in a public health emergency is sensible but ceding control over health budgets and critical decision-making in a pandemic to an unelected international organisation seems profoundly at odds with national autonomy and democratic accountability.”
Campaigners also expressed concern about increasing the WHO’s role in identifying misinformation (lab leak changes of view)
Molly Kingsley, UsForThem
“We should all be concerned about the WHO being ordained as an arbiter of pandemic truth,
especially given its poor record during the pandemic,
such as its claim that Covid was definitively zoonotic in origin
and its April 2020 denial of the role of natural immunity in protecting against infection.”