SMART TACTIC?
Suerie Moon, co-director of the World Well being Centre on the Geneva Graduate Institute, informed AFP previous to the US announcement that it will be tactically smarter for Washington to carry off.
If they need “leverage over WHO … it will make sense to no less than see what they’ll get, after which use the withdrawal as a negotiating software”, she mentioned.
Moon voiced certainty that WHO would survive a US withdrawal.
“Most organisations would survive a 15 per cent finances lower, however it will be painful,” she mentioned.
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, that means negotiations weren’t accomplished earlier than Trump’s return.
Monday’s govt order says Washington will cease negotiating throughout its withdrawal, and the settlement could have “no binding pressure” on america.
Moon warned that the US pullout from the talks may give different cautious international locations “a simple out”.
