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World Health Organisation Logo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The World Health Organisation wants to impose \u2018pandemic prevention measures\u2019 on its 194 member states by means of a new international treaty.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, changes to the International Health Regulations could prevent member states like Sweden deciding on their own approach to health challenges.<\/p>\n

The WHO also wants to compel its member states to legalise abortion on demand up to birth.<\/p>\n

Each member state will send three delegates to the World Health Assembly meeting from 21st to 30th May 2023. Scripture demands both issues be debated. Firstly, the Treaty might not even be necessary and should not encroach on national sovereign rights in any event. Secondly, the abortion measure should be thrown out. However, there is little sign the UK Government will disagree with the WHO on either matter. So it will be up to other nations.<\/p>\n

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Westminster Hall Debate<\/h2>\n

MPs debated the Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response: International Agreement in Westminster Hall earlier this week, on Monday 17th April 2023.<\/p>\n

The debate was triggered because more than 156,000 people expressed their concerns by signing a petition, urging the government to refrain from signing any World Health Organisation (WHO) pandemic treaty without prior approval through a public referendum. Read the petition HERE<\/b><\/a>. Read the Draft Treaty HERE<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Read the Hansard record of the debate<\/b><\/a>. The speeches of MPs Danny Kruger, Andrew Bridgen, Sir Christopher Chope, Esther McVey and Sally-Ann Hart, and intervention from John Redwood were encouraging. The front-bench contributions were less so.<\/p>\n

Andrew Bridgen MP quoted George Santayana: \u2018Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. I have some severe worries that the lessons of the last pandemic have not been learned by the WHO itself, and that we are in danger of giving it more powers to enable it to overreach itself and repeat those catastrophic mistakes.’<\/p>\n

The debate was moved by Nick Fletcher, a member of the Petitions Committee. It was his job to introduce the petition but not to take sides. However, he damned the WHO with faint praise, saying it had done \u2018some wonderful work.\u2019 He explained that less than 20% of its budget comes from members states. He acknowledged the concerns over \u2018philanthropists and pharmaceutical companies that make contributions\u2019 to the WHO.<\/p>\n

STOP PRESS 26\/05\/2023<\/b>: Six conservative MPs, led by the aforementioned Esther McVey with colleagues Sir John Redwood, David Davis, Philip Davies, Sir Christopher Chope and Danny Kruger, have written to ministers about the dangers. The Daily Telegraph<\/b><\/a> says ministers are now taking the matter seriously, but its story does not raise the prospect of the UK objecting to the proposed treaty at the World Health Assembly meeting 21st to 30th May 2023, being held as the Telegraph went to press with their story.<\/p>\n

Following the big donors<\/h2>\n

Above all, the WHO is in thrall to its big donors, all believers in technology, restrictions and vaccines. EuroNews says:<\/strong><\/a> ‘The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation alone is responsible for over 88 per cent of the total amount donated by philanthropic foundations to the WHO. Other contributors include the Bloomberg Family Foundation (3.5 per cent), the Wellcome Trust (1.1 per cent) and the Rockefeller Foundation<\/b><\/a> (0.8 per cent).’<\/p>\n

Alongside member nations and the European Commission, WHO says here that its top donors<\/strong><\/a> are the COVID-19 Solidarity Fund, GAVI the Vaccine Alliance and various United Nations programmes.<\/p>\n

It has been said the WHO may not receive money direct from pharmaceutical companies. However, such money is channeled through \u2018patient groups\u2019 instead. See HERE<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n

In another list of WHO funders<\/strong><\/a> we also see major donations from Rotary International and the World Bank.<\/p>\n

Global call for a treaty<\/h2>\n

In March 2021, global leaders, including Boris Johnson, called for the development of a treaty to strengthen international collaboration in pandemic management. Subsequently, in October 2021, a WHO working group produced a preliminary report (known as a ‘zero draft’) for submission to the World Health Assembly (WHA), the WHO’s decision-making body.<\/p>\n

Following this, the WHA held a second special session in December 2021, during which it established an Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) responsible for drafting and negotiating the treaty, intended as a fresh global agreement aimed at promoting joint efforts for preventing, preparing for, and responding to pandemics.<\/p>\n

The treaty is expected to be adopted under Article 19 of the WHO Constitution, which empowers the WHA to endorse conventions or agreements related to any matter within the WHO’s jurisdiction.<\/p>\n

Regulations could stop Swedish-style dissent<\/h2>\n

Furthermore, proposed changes to the \u00a0International Health Regulations (IHR) are also being rushed towards a deadline of May 2024, for adoption at the 2024 World Health Assembly.<\/p>\n

Writing in the Daily Sceptic<\/strong><\/a>, Professor Robert Dingwall points out that the changes remove the necessity for states to agree to measures being imposed. Sweden could no longer decide its own, limited, response to a health challenge. The amendments, proposed by the US Biden regime, remove the necessity to take the views of member states into account. Such requirements are simply deleted from the IFR. See HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Robert Dingwall writes:<\/p>\n

‘Currently, the WHO can issue recommendations to members when a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) is declared. The amendments have the effect of changing recommendations to directions or commands. The definition of a PHEIC is loosened so that the Director-General can declare one in response to a potential, rather than an actual, threat and regardless of the views of the state from which the threat is thought to arise. Once this declaration is made, the new text moves away from the present language, based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to subordinate rights to the discretion of the DG, who acquires the power to close borders, require vaccine passports, mandate vaccinations, impose quarantines and censor media critical of these interventions. The DG is to be the sole source of pandemic truth.’<\/p>\n

Lockdowns and Vaccines<\/h2>\n

We need to remember that in 2021, governments worldwide had adopted the idea that the way to prevent respiratory infections was by restrictions on movement, economic and social activity, by facemasks and lockdowns. Christian Voice opposed all of them as contrary to scripture. All are now being gradually discredited. The then Secretary of State Matt Hancock defended those measures and criticised those who would \u2018let the virus rip\u2019. But it and its variants \u2018ripped\u2019 anyway, despite his arrogance of presuming to \u2018control the spread\u2019 by locking the population indoors.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, such failed measures still inform the WHO \u2018Zero Draft\u2019. It speaks in Article 4(10) of \u2018public health and social measures\u2019, in Article 14(2) about \u2018restrictions\u2019. Under the treaty, lockdowns could be mandated worldwide.<\/p>\n

We also recall that our Government promoted \u2018vaccination\u2019 as the way out of restrictions. Gene therapy drugs were rushed out without testing. Only two days ago we reported on a widower taking AstraZeneca to court seeking compensation for the death of his wife, a BBC presenter, blamed by the coroner on the vaccine.<\/p>\n

Read that tragic story HERE \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n

So it is interesting to read in Zero Draft: \u2018Article 9 (5). The Parties shall establish, no later than XX, with reference to existing models, a global compensation mechanism for injuries resulting from pandemic vaccines.\u2019<\/p>\n

Does the UK support the treaty?<\/h2>\n

Then Prime Minister Boris Johnson was a signatory to the article initially proposing the treaty. See HERE.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

On 27th May 2022, the Government responded to the Parliamentary petition, stating that it supported a new legally-binding instrument ‘as part of a cooperative and comprehensive approach to pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response.’<\/p>\n

The UK\u2019s position on the exact substance of the treaty remains to be seen as negotiations continue. Nevertheless, the debate made clear all the opposition parties support it as it stands. Furthermore, the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP said, \u2018we want to support the development of this new pandemic instrument.\u2019<\/p>\n

External \u2018Fact-Checkers\u2019<\/b><\/a> have dismissed concerns about the proposed Treaty. Ironically, given their past form, that is reason enough to oppose it.<\/p>\n

On the other side of the fence, The Daily Sceptic<\/b><\/a> has raised alarms.<\/b><\/p>\n

Arrogance<\/h2>\n
\"Dr<\/a>
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organisation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the fourth meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB), held from 27th February – 3rd March 2023, a preliminary version (zero draft) of the treaty was presented for review. The primary objective of the WHO CA+ they say, ‘is to achieve effective management of pandemics worldwide.’<\/p>\n

The WHO elite believe the \u2018international community\u2019 showed a \u2018catastrophic failure to demonstrate solidarity and equity in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic\u2019. The aim is clearly to go further than a continuation of the status quo and to make sure everyone toes whatever line is chosen. As the WHO shows no willingness to learn from mistakes, anything is possible.<\/p>\n

Moreover, there is a lack of universally recognised criteria to determine the conclusion of a pandemic. Is the current one over yet? It is the WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who will make the declaration. Under the Treaty and the Amendments his decision will be binding.<\/p>\n

According to Article 19(1c) of the draft report the UK government will be committed to allocating in its annual budgets not less than 5% of its current health expenditure to pandemic prevention, preparedness, response and health systems recovery.<\/p>\n

The allocation of 5% amounts to approximately \u00a37.5 billion for England and Wales. This is equivalent to about half of the General Practice budget. Is that affordable?<\/p>\n

Luke 14:28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? 29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, 30 Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.<\/b><\/p>\n

The Bible on Sovereignty<\/h2>\n

Christian Voice is concerned with sovereignty, God-given freedoms, definitions, the costs of this treaty and its vainglorious pretence that respiratory infections can be controlled by men in suits. In article 4 (8) it repeats the glib mantra: \u2018previous pandemics have demonstrated that no one is safe until everyone is safe\u2019.<\/p>\n

One the matter of sovereignty, we read how God separated the nations with a mandate to carry out his rule of law:
\nGen 10:32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.<\/b><\/p>\n

The Apostle Paul confirmed the division of nations, while emphasising our common humanity:
\nActs 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;<\/b><\/p>\n

The Tower of Babel was the first instance of mankind\u2019s quest to rebel against God by bringing all the nations together under a demonic authority:
\nGen 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. <\/strong>5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.<\/strong><\/p>\n

God destroyed the Tower and confused their language, but the supra-national ambition remains. It is spoken about in Psalm 2:
\nPsalm 2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, … 4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.<\/b><\/p>\n

As to their arrogance in presuming to fight a respiratory infection, the Bible says we know nothing about how God has ordered the world:<\/p>\n

Job 37:14 Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. 15\u00a0 Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine? 16\u00a0 Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge? … 23 Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.\u00a024 Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are wise of heart.<\/b><\/p>\n

John 3:8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.<\/b><\/p>\n

Prayer<\/h2>\n

Pray for our leaders to seek the Lord for humility, for his wisdom and understanding:<\/p>\n

Prov 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.<\/b><\/p>\n

Matt 20:25 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. 26 But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; 27 And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:<\/b><\/p>\n

Pray that delegate countries will object to the draft Treaty. Pray that the UK Government will seek the Lord, and seek the will of the people even in a public referendum. Let them promote transparency and accountability in the decision-making process and restore by servant leadership that sense of trust between the government and the people which over the last few years has been lost.<\/p>\n

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