Do you have any idea who is representing New Zealand at the World Health Assembly gathering presently underway in Switzerland?
Probably not.
Who appointed them? Do they have voting rights? Who has authority to place New Zealand’s vote?
The Ministry of Health says they don’t know how long it will take to answer these questions.
The World Health Assembly, presently underway in Geneva, started off with a roar, when delegates agreed to a 20 percent increase in membership fees, (New Zealand has contributed $7m for the biennium 2022/2023).
Has mainstream media told you anything about the World Health Assembly?
The World Health Assembly is the decision-making body of the World Health Organisation. It meets annually in Geneva. It is attended by delegations from WHO member states and focuses on a specific health agenda prepared by the executive board.
In plain speak it determines the policies of the WHO.
At this, the seventy-sixth World Health Assembly, strategic roundtables are being held. Delegates and WHO experts are discussing priorities for public health issues of global importance.
Topics include
A WHO convention, agreement, or international instrument on pandemic preparedness and response.
Amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005).
Do you know anything about this? Probably not much, if you rely on mainstream media.
During the present 10-day meeting, delegates are deliberating about the role that the WHO has in the ‘Global Health Emergency Architecture’.
They say they are strengthening preparedness and response for health emergencies:
WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has a way with words:
“This is the moment for us to write a new chapter in global health history, together, to chart a new path forward, together, to make the world safer for our children and grandchildren, together”, he says.
In reality the WHO’s determined drive to vaccinate almost every human being continues by stealth and there will be little individual informed consent and few options, if it has its way.
WHO, UNICEF, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have joined forces to call for “The Big Catch-up”, a targeted global effort to boost vaccination among children following declines driven by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, is a public-private partnership that has helped to immunise more than 822 million children.
The WHO is aware that vaccine uptake is now low but it is undeterred,
“Immunization programmes should collect data on what people are thinking and feeling, their motivation, and the social processes and practical issues that drive or hinder vaccination to develop evidence-informed strategies that increase uptake. This process enables programmes to design, target and evaluate interventions to achieve greater impact with more efficiency, and to examine and understand trends over time.”
The WHO confirms it will ‘work with member states and civil society to identify the best model for sustained political leadership, governance direction and funding for collaboration’.
This week in Geneva
In Geneva on Wednesday, delegates in Committee A concluded discussions on Item 14 and parts of Item 15.
For example, in the unedited draft:
Item 14.4:
‘The Parties shall, as appropriate, monitor, regulate, and strengthen the existing rapid alert systems among neighbouring countries, against substandard and falsified pandemic-related products, including through existing Member State mechanisms on substandard and falsified medical products.’
In other words, goodbye to repurposed drugs or other alternative treatments not supported by the WHO.
Option 15.B in the draft:. ‘Recognising the central role of WHO as the directing and coordinating authority on international health work, and mindful of the need for coordination with regional organisations, entities in the United Nations system and other intergovernmental organisations, the WHO Director-General shall determine whether to declare a pandemic.’
So the Director-General will declare a pandemic and then the WHO officials will dictate rules that may, for example, lead to lockdowns, vaccine passports, border closures and permanent travel restrictions.
Be aware that if you have family members living overseas, if you travel for work, or simply like to travel, you could be faced with years of separation and restriction.
Do you know how NZ delegates are voting on such issues?
Probably not.
It will be useful if you go straight to the source for WHO strategies.
The WHO says it aims to ‘strengthen incentives for collaboration through stronger political leadership, governance direction and funding for collaboration. This includes technical work to identify mechanisms to more effectively and efficiently translate their collaboration into action at the country level.”
In other words they will use political influence and surveillance.
We’re assured that guiding principles and rights for WHO’s proposed international treaty include the importance of national sovereign rights and full respect for the dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms of persons.
But here’s the thing: if New Zealand signs up and enacts legislation to enable the WHO’s pandemic ‘architecture’, Kiwis will be legally bound by its dictates.
The proposed regulations require that member states recognise the WHO as the guidance and coordinating authority of international public health response during public health emergencies of international concern. And that they undertake to follow the WHO’s recommendations in their international public health response.
So it’s vitally important that New Zealand votes the way its citizens want it to vote.
Do you know this?
Maybe not.
The WHO names our delegates:
Chief Delegate Professor D. Sarfati Director-General of Health, Ministry of Health
Deputy Chief Delegate Ms A.L. Duncan Ambassador, Permanent Representative Geneva
Delegate Dr A. Old Head, Public Health Agency and Deputy Director-General, Ministry of Health
Alternate Mr S. Waldegrave Associate Deputy Director-General of Health (Policy) Ministry of Health
Ms L. Hetaraka Chief Nursing Officer, Ministry of Health
Mr N. Glassey Deputy Permanent Representative, Geneva
Ms H.L. Cassels Manager Global Health, Ministry of Health
Ms C. Van Bohemen Hunter Health Attaché, Permanent Mission, Geneva
Ms N. Maarleveld Senior Advisor, Global Health, Ministry of Health
Has mainstream media interviewed any of them?
The Looking Glass reports that a campaign to Exit the WHO is now in play, and a few of the smaller parties running in this year’s NZ general election are pledging to cut ties, including The Freedom and Outdoors Party and Democracy NZ.
WHO is majority funded by private enterprise. Its bosses and officials are not democratically elected.
WHO member states and UN member states will be invited to sign up to the WHO agreement (WHO CA+) following its adoption by the World Health Assembly at next year’s World Health Assembly in Geneva and thereafter at the United Nations headquarters in New York. A two thirds vote of WHO’s 194 member states is required for adoption.
Take some time to swat up the unedited draft of ‘A WHO convention, agreement or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response’ dated 22 May 2023.
Other reading:
Aseem Malhotra: truth seeker and a truth teller | The Spectator Australia
https://www.gets.govt.nz//DPMC/ExternalTenderDetails.htm?id=27388193
https://apps.who.int/gb/bd/PDF/bd47/EN/rules-of-procedure-en.pdf
http://open.who.int/2022-23/contributors/contributor?name=New%20Zealand
Listen to Dr David Bell [-involved with the WHO , no longer ] HE is Leighton Smith's guest interview in podcast 197 Wed 24TH May on ZB radio . He tells it as it is -