by Sharon Rondeau
(May 31, 2022) — On Saturday, researcher and Substack blogger James Roguski spoke with Kathleen Marquardt of American Policy Center‘s “Catching Fire News” about the defeat of proposed amendments to the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR) submitted by the U.S. in January to the World Health Assembly (WHA).
Roguski and many others had seen the amendments as injurious to individual nations’ sovereignty in the event of a future declared pandemic or disease outbreak and in matters of public health generally.
WHA is the policy-making arm of the World Health Organization (WHO), which is funded by its parent organization, the United Nations (UN), Microsoft founder Bill Gates, numerous national governments, and Rotary International.
According to WHO, the organization “leads global efforts to expand universal health coverage. We direct and coordinate the world’s response to health emergencies. And we promote healthier lives – from pregnancy care through old age. Our Triple Billion targets outline an ambitious plan for the world to achieve good health for all using science-based policies and programmes.”
On Sunday Roguski, who began investigating the issue of the amendments in late March, wrote a detailed article about the latest developments transpiring during the WHA conference in Geneva, Switzerland last week. Opening on May 22, two days later on May 24, new amendments revising those delivered to the WHO by the United States four months prior were submitted and debated in violation of the WHO’s own rules, Roguski pointed out to Marquardt and on his blog.
On May 22, Roguski reported, 12 of the 13 amendments proposed by the Biden regime were “removed from consideration” due to a “lack of consensus” among member nations. However, he remained concerned about a proposed change to Article 59 of the 2005 IHR referring to Article 22 of the WHO constitution, which states, “Regulations adopted pursuant to Article 21 shall come into force for all Members after due notice has been given of their adoption by the Health Assembly except for such Members as may notify the Director-General of rejection or reservations within the period stated in the notice.”
As of this writing, Article 59 of the IHR reads:
However, the remaining amendment supported by the governments of the U.S., Northern Ireland, Australia and several other countries proposed that the 18-month consideration period be reduced to six months.
Despite their late appearance, the revised amendments contain the paragraph from Article 55 of the WHO’s constitution stating that “The text of any proposed amendment shall be communicated to all States Parties by the Director-General at least four months before the Health Assembly at which it is proposed for consideration,” a point Roguski made to Marquardt (4:56). “On its face, they’re illegitimate,” he said.
A decision to adopt the newest amendment was made on Friday, May 27, as Roguski detailed to Children’s Health Defense (CHD). The time frames suggested in the “original amendments” were not addressed, he said, while stressing that he would not “claim 100% victory until they close the door and all go away from Geneva” (5:39).
According to the changes upon which the WHA reached “consensus,” nations have ten months to express an objection “from the date of the notification by the Director-General of the adoption of an amendment to these Regulations by the Health Assembly.”
“We never got an exact count, but they essentially said more than 50 nations said, ‘Hold up; wait a minute; that’s not right; we’d like to have something to say about it,'” Roguski told Marquardt. Nations voicing concerns included Iran, Brazil, Botswana, Russia, Malaysia, China, South Africa, Bangladesh, Namibia, and India.
In Geneva on Friday morning, Roguski explained, the “revised” amendments were adopted publicly with the “time-period” change stated as ten months after an agreement “in the back room” was reached.
The WHO nevertheless issued the document as a “draft resolution.”
Toward the end of his interview with Marquardt, Roguski related that constituents who contacted their congressmen to object to the Biden regime’s proposed changes to the IHR were initially told their representatives were unfamiliar with the issue. Later, he said, “Republican” congressional offices expressed to constituents their support for the amendments after having allegedly received marching orders “from above.”
Marquardt commented that constituents contacting their representatives to speak their minds demonstrates that the people “do have the power,” crediting Roguski’s work in informing them. Roguski responded that the outcome is “just a skirmish in an ongoing battle” in which “the power of the people came through this time.”
On his blog, he termed it a “stunning defeat.”
Roguski’s summary of the events can be found here.
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