2023-10-16 20:00:33
Given the devastating effects of the Covid pandemic, there is global consensus that the International Health Regulations of the World Health Organization (WHO), which were last amended in 2005, need a fundamental update – but what a future pandemic treaty might look like remains controversial. At the WHS World Health Summit, which opened on Sunday in Berlin, some people protested: opposite the venue and, of all places, in front of the German Resistance Memorial Center, they demonstrated against an alleged “seizure of power” by the World Health Organization – “get out of the WHO,” one said Poster of the lateral thinker party “The Basis”. More than 1,700 people have so far filed constitutional complaints against the possible ratification of the planned international treaty; The first one was rejected for formal reasons, as the Federal Constitutional Court recently announced.
Both at the opening of the health summit and during a discussion on Monday morning, Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach stated that individual states should retain the sovereignty over health protection measures. “We will not be able to use external forces,” he said, and support would have to be requested first. The contract could not be successful if the impression was created that part of the executive power was transferred to the WHO.
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