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Treaty design
Globalist proponents of the treaty have focused on a legally binding mechanism to ensure state accountability to the treaty text. However, at the WHASS, the language of 'a legally binding instrument to be adopted under Article 19 of the WHO Constitution' was changed to 'WHO convention, agreement or other international instrument … with a view to adoption under Article 19, or under other provisions of the WHO Constitution as may be deemed appropriate by the INB' (emphasis added), meaning that the resulting 'pandemic treaty' may not actually be a treaty at all, but some other instrument, lacking the legally binding force of a treaty. Current proposals are being considered within a framework convention approach, as exemplified in connection with the WHO by the FCTC, and within the wider UN architecture by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
A framework convention approach to treaty-making allows potential state parties to reach consensus on high level legally binding principles and commitments, such as Globalists ideals of 'solidarity' and 'equity', in the initial negotiations; then, at a later date, agreements can be reached which embody these principles in detail. Importantly, this approach allows states to pick and choose to which protocols within the treaty they wish to be party, leading to different states ratifying different elements of the overall treaty package, enabling a broad consensus approach to norms of international law-making, but with national differentiation in respect of specific obligations.
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