Prime Minister Boris Johnson has back plans for an international pandemic treaty to help the world prepare for future pandemics after more than 20 world leaders called for the steps to be taken.
In a newspaper report the leaders, including Germany’s chancellor and the French president, said Covid posed the biggest challenge ‘since World War Two.’
They went on to claim the pandemic has shown how “nobody is safe until everyone is safe”.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph and publications such as Le Monde in France and El Pais in Spain, the 24 world leaders claim that a treaty similar to that reached in the wake of World War Two is needed to build cross-border cooperation in case of future pandemic outbreaks.
The signatories, who include the head of the World Health Organization, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said: “At that time, following the devastation of two world wars, political leaders came together to forge the multilateral system.
“The aims were clear: To bring countries together, to dispel the temptations of isolationism and nationalism, and to address the challenges that could only be achieved together in the spirit of solidarity and co-operation – namely peace, prosperity, health and security.”
They went on to say how nations must: “be better prepared to predict, prevent, detect, assess and effectively respond to pandemics in a highly co-ordinated fashion”.
The letter calls for a global response to any future pandemics: “There will be other pandemics and other major health emergencies. No single government or multilateral agency can address this threat alone. The question is not if, but when.
“The Covid-19 pandemic has been a stark and painful reminder that nobody is safe until everyone is safe.”
It added: “At a time when Covid-19 has exploited our weaknesses and divisions, we must seize this opportunity and come together as a global community for peaceful co-operation that extends beyond this crisis.”
Opinion:
Can you trust the current administration after constant U-turns and broken promises to the British people?
It’s been a long ‘three weeks to flatten the curve’ and unfortunately the government could decide to U-turn once again and take us right back into lockdown.
The reality is, now the government has used lockdowns before they have created a precedent for using such draconian measures to be brought in on a whim.
In some ways this lockdown has complete changed the United Kingdom into an unrecognisable shadow of its former self, will HM’s government continue to take us down the global pandemic treaty path, is this a further incursion of our liberties in the form of self-appointing officials and globalists dictating they call the shots? That’s for you to decide.
Editor-in-Chief | Carl D. Pearson has been involved in British politics and media from an early age, with the key knowledge of what it takes to run a news organisation for the 21st century. Mr Pearson, as Editor-in-chief, is responsible for supervising the daily tasks of publishing media and content to UNN’s website and various platforms.
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