World Heath Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus will be made “global health dictator” by new powers in a fresh pandemic treaty, according to Frank Gaffney from the Centre for Security Policy.
The international treaty contains a series of measures setting out how the world should prevent, prepare for and respond to pandemics.
It has proven controversial due to suggestions that countries will be handing over vital powers to the WHO which will be used during times of emergency.
Speaking on GBN America to Steven Edginton, Gaffney claimed that such a move risks a surrender of sovereignty.
Frank Gaffney has issued a chilling warning about the future of the WHO
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“It opens the door to the Director-General of the World Health Organisation becoming a global health dictator by virtue of giving him the authority to decide two things”, he said.
“One, when does a national region have a public health emergency of international concern?
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“And two, what that nation or region must do in response. That could be not only to address pandemics. Tedros has already signalled that he considers things like climate change and poverty and migration and reproductive rights and gun violence to be these sorts of emergencies.
“He would therefore have the authority to start telling people what they have to do.”
Global health leaders have said exactly how the new measures would look may not be agree for another year or more.
Sir Patrick Vallance, who became a familiar face in UK households during the pandemic as chief scientific adviser, is among those to have warned about the threat of another pandemic.
Steven Edginton spoke to Frank Gaffney on GBN America
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, during the 72nd FIFA Congress at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center, Doha. Picture date: Thursday March 31, 2022.gbnewsHe said last month that it was “absolutely inevitable”.
Gaffney told GBN America he is extremely apprehensive about the prospect of a new treaty to address pandemic powers.
“You may not be even be allowed to hear from your doctor that actually, there may be a better way to treat your condition than what Tedros is prescribing”, he said.
“It’s pretty much what we saw in the pandemic, only it’s mandatory this time, not something a governor may opt out of, or a prime minister may say no to.
“If that’s the case, there’s never been a concentration of power in the hands of a single individual in the course of human history.
“What makes it all remarkable is he’s getting it without firing a shot. People are surrendering their sovereignty. Why?”
The WHO said earlier this month that talks will be concluded by 2025 or earlier if possible.
"The historic decisions taken today demonstrate a common desire by member states to protect their own people, and the world's, from the shared risk of public health emergencies and future pandemics," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement.
