Trump administration officials rejected on Friday Series of rules To help the international community prevent public health risks and respond.
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior and State Secretary Marco Rubio A joint statement issued Formally reject 2024 International Health Regulations Amendments (IHR) World health organization (Who).
Kennedy said in a video message, “The proposed amendments to the International Health Rules open the door for the type of story management, publicity and censorship that we saw during the Kovid epidemic.” Social platform x,
He said, “The United States can cooperate with other countries without ending our constitution, without reducing our Constitution, and without removing America’s valuable sovereignty, without endangering our civil freedom,” he said.
IHR is an international legal agreement adopted by all 194 which is in the member states and the outline of the “rights and responsibilities” of the organization and governments in handling global health emergencies.
According to the health non-profit organization, the member states decided to review the IHR in 2022 and potentially amend the IHR, which was born among the international community in response to the Covid-19 epidemic. Malevolent,
The WHO formally approved the number amendment for IHR last year, but they did not come on a consensus. Epidemic agreement By the beginning of this year.
Kennedy said in the video message that which member states have the next to reject the amendments. He said that the US is choosing to reject the revised rules, for reasons related to “national sovereignty”.
The HHS chief said, “Nations accepting the new rules are signing their power in health emergency situations, which are for an unpublished, international organization that can order lockdown, travel sanctions or any other measures,” the HHS chief said. “If we are going to give that power, then we should invite at least one completely public debate.”
He said that the US decision to reject the amendments was provoked by concerns on a regulation about “Risk Communication” systems.
The revised requirements, Kennedy continued, countries need to establish the systems of risk communication that they believe that the world opens the door of “fiction management, publicity and censorship” that the world was seen during the Kovid -19 epidemic.
He said, “We don’t want to see that kind of system further,” he said.
Amendments related to “Health ID and Vaccine Passport’s global systems” are also concerned over a provision, which Kennedy feels will pave the way for global medical monitoring.
This step is the latest in the efforts of the Trump administration and tried and made Distance of america From Hu.
In January, President Trump issued an executive order to withdraw the US from the organization and said the country would stop transfer of money for the future.
The President tried to withdraw the country from the international organization during his first term. Never return – a member state takes a year to withdraw from WHO – and former President Biden to fully withdraw Reverse the decision Once he took over.
Public health experts reduced Trump’s move, warning that it would severely weaken domestic and global public health.
The US was the founding member of the WHO in 1948 and is the largest financial donor of the organization.
