US, Western countries push for pandemic response deal as WHO negotiations drag on

Western countries led by the United States, France and Germany pushed for a deal to bolster pandemic response rules at a major World Health Organization meeting on Tuesday after states failed to finalize a pandemic treaty. No agreement was reached on the treaty last week in time for this week's World Health Assembly, with deep divisions and occasional acrimony between rich and poorer countries on issues like vaccine-sharing and funding that could take months or even years to hash out.

My appeal here is let us focus on the IHR so we have this success as this is already providing much better protection for the world,' Germany's Health Minister Karl Lauterbach told the annual meeting of the WHO's 194 member states. If we do this, 'we would have all been part of an historic opportunity and we would have seized it,' he said, urging the pandemic treaty talks to also be finalized within a year.

Lawrence Gostin, a professor at Georgetown Law in Washington D.C. involved in the negotiations said the IHR were being 'leveraged in order for more gains on the pandemic treaty'. 'By delaying adoption of the IHR it make everyone decidedly less safe,' he told Reuters. Negotiations on both sets of reforms will resume in a new combined format on Wednesday, with the assembly due to conclude on June 1.

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