HOT! Today Dutch Parliament Votes to Instruct the Government to Demand a Delay in both WHO votes–and if no delay, to vote against the proposals
HOT! Today Dutch Parliament Votes to
Instruct the Government to Demand a Delay in both WHO votes–and if no
delay, to vote against the proposals
This motion got a majority vote of the Dutch Parliament !
MOTION BY MEMBER of the Dutch Parliament Mona KEIJZER ET AL.
Proposed April 10, 2024. A majority voted in favour April 16, 2024
After
hearing the deliberations, noting that both the Working Group
International Health Regulations (WGIHR) and the International
Negotiating Body (INB) are authorized to deliver the final legal
formulation of the envisaged amendments to the International Health
Regulations (IHR) and the Pandemic Treaty to the 77th World Health
Assembly (WHA), which will take place at the end of May 2024; noting
that this process is proceeding at an unprecedented pace, whereas such
far-reaching measures require more time to be considered, reviewed and
properly implemented; whereas ignoring procedural obligations under IHR
and leaving unclear the link between the amended IHR and the new
pandemic treaty undermines the international legal order and thus the
democratic legitimacy of this regulation in violation of Article 55 of
the IHR, which requires proposed amendments to be submitted to the
Contracting States at least four months before deliberation and voting
in the WHA; whereas this does not provide sufficient opportunity to
examine the changes and their important legal, health, economic,
financial and human rights implications; whereas the
request to adopt the amendments to the IHR or the text of the envisaged
pandemic treaty is not in line with the UN principles and guidelines;
instructs the government to request a postponement of the vote on the
amendments and thus on the IHR and the new pandemic treaty at the World
Health Assembly and, if this postponement is not
obtained, to vote against the proposed amendments to the IHR and the new
pandemic treaty as a whole;
and proceeds to the order of the day.
Mona Keijzer, Daniëlle Jansen, Fleur Agema Members Dutch Parliament
