SMART TACTIC?
Suerie Moon, co-director of the World Well being Centre on the Geneva Graduate Institute, instructed AFP previous to the US announcement that it might be tactically smarter for Washington to carry off.
If they need “leverage over WHO … it might make sense to not less than see what they’ll get, after which use the withdrawal as a negotiating software”, she stated.
Moon voiced certainty that WHO would survive a US withdrawal.
“Most organisations would survive a 15 per cent funds minimize, however it might be painful,” she stated.
PANDEMIC AGREEMENT
Rattled by Covid, WHO member states determined in December 2021 to begin drafting an accord on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.
However deadlines have been repeatedly missed, which means negotiations weren’t accomplished earlier than Trump’s return.
Monday’s government order says Washington will cease negotiating throughout its withdrawal, and the settlement can have “no binding power” on the USA.
Moon warned that the US pullout from the talks might give different cautious international locations “a simple out”.
