After more than three years of negotiations, the member states of World Health Organization today approved historical agreement with the aim of making better preparation and coordinated fight against future pandemics.

“Its Member States who took a big step forward in efforts to make people safer than pandemics, forging a draft agreement that will be considered at the next World Health Summit in May,” the organization, part of the UN system, explained in the press release.

The deal was closed after the last day – and night – negotiation. “We reached an agreement at 01:58,” a characteristic delegate at the French Agency said, while the organization’s offices were preparing the glasses with champagne.

“The nations of the world wrote history today in Geneva,” summed his general manager who, who, Tedros Antanom Gedes.

“Concluding a consensus on the pandemic agreement, not only did they close an agreement that is the most important one for a generation to become more secure, but they have also shown that the multilateral approach is still alive, and that in our divided world, nations can still work together to find a context.” Tedros, who was actively involved in the dialogue.

The talks – Government, live and digitally – were, however, progressing at a slower pace than expected yesterday, after three days of pause.

They were in particular in Article 11, which concerns the transfer of technologies for the production of health -related health products, above all to benefit developing countries.

The issue was at the heart of many protests, above all from countries that were deprived of most during the pandemic of the new crown, as they considered that rich countries bought and kept on their behalf what was there, from doses of vaccines as tests and individuals.

Other countries, where the pharmaceutical industry has a heavy weight on the economy, opposed the idea of ​​compulsory transport and insisted on voluntary. Eventually there was consensus on the principle of transferring technologies that will be the fruit of “mutually agreed” terms.

The agreement also provides for the creation of a “system of access to pathogens and the division of advantages” (PABs in English) so that there is a rapid exchange of data for pathogens, health products and their use of their use, such as vaccines and methods or examinations. The aim is to extend access to these products at the same time and to create a global network of supply chains.

It is a “historical agreement on health safety, equality and international solidarity,” commented An-Lerr Abrou, a co-chair of the France and France’s ambassador for global health.

His head who went to take part in the negotiations yesterday at the end of the day and took the opportunity to make some comments in the press. In his view, the text is “balanced” and will bring “more equality”.

Above all, Dr. Tedros warned everyone not to lose their eyes what he thinks is the most important. “The cost of inaction is much higher” as “the virus is the worst enemy, it can be worse than war.”

On Saturday, after five days of negotiations, including 24 hours without interruption, Ms Abrou announced “in principle agreement”, awaiting a definitive green light by the capitals.

Yesterday, the latest addition to the text were to be made, five years after the New Koronovirus pandemic, which left millions of dead and the global economy crushed. The aim is to make better preparation in the world, which is far from being prepared and having the supplies to face a new pandemic, as the experts point out.

The negotiations were carried out on the backdrop of the crisis on multilateral cooperation and the global health system – largely due to active cuts in US aid, with President Donald Trump’s decisions. The US has so far been by far the main sponsor of humanitarian aid in the world.

Washington was absent from the negotiations, as the Republican president has made the decision to withdraw the US from WHO. However, the US presence was almost tangible in the corridors of the international organization, due to the Trump government’s threat to impose customs duties on medicinal products.

In any case, for many NGOs, it was necessary to conclude this agreement.

“Although the agreement has been closed after many compromises, it contains positive elements that allow the creation of a new framework for preparing and reaction to pandemics in a more equal and fairer way in the future,” commented the NGOs of Médecins Sans Frontières.