Panel 1 - High-level meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (20/9/2023)
Summary
The high-level meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response will focus on the theme: "Creating and maintaining political momentum and solidarity for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response".
Description
Panel 1: Ensuring equity through governance and accountability for pandemic prevention, preparedness and response by utilizing multi-sectoral coordination at all levels.
Co-chairs: ▪ H.E. Ms. Carla Vizzotti, Minister of Health of Argentina ▪ H.E. Ms. Riina Sikkut, Minister of Health of Estonia
Questions:
How can a rules-based system within an international legal framework advance pandemic prevention, preparedness and response, and deliver on equity?
Applying the lessons learned from previous public health emergencies including COVID-19, how can the international community ensure responsible stewardship, partnership, and accountability to commit to and deliver on better pandemic prevention, preparedness and response?
How can we ensure multi-sectoral and whole-of-society coordination to guarantee all voices are heard and build/maintain trust, both before and during crises?
The President of the General Assembly, in collaboration with the World Health Organization, will convene Heads of State and Government for a one-day meeting to adopt a political declaration aimed at mobilizing political will at the national, regional and international levels for pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.
The meeting will bring together Member States, observers of the General Assembly, the United Nations system, representatives of nongovernmental organizations in consultative status with ECOSOC and representatives of organizations with special accreditation. The objective of the meeting is to further mobilize political momentum, including through the integration of a multisectoral approach towards pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.
Outcome: The high-level meeting shall approve a concise and action-oriented political declaration, agreed in advance by consensus through intergovernmental negotiations, to be submitted by the President of the General Assembly for adoption by the General Assembly
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Press Conference: (WHO) on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (20/9/2023)
Summary
World Health Organization (WHO) on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response.
Description
Speakers: Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization; Dr Mike Ryan, Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies (WHE) Programme; Dr Jaouad Mahjour, Head of WHO Secretariat to the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) and International Health Regulations (IHR) Amendments.
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High-level meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response - General Assembly (20/9/2023)
(Opening, Plenary, Closing) High-level meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response - General Assembly, 78th session
0:23m:45s - Dennis Francis, President of the 78th session of the General Assembly and Permanent Representative of Trinidad and Tobago to the United Nations
0:37m:21s - Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy secretary-general and Nigerian to the United Nations
0:42m:40s - WHO Director-General and Ethiopian, Tedros Ghebreyesus
0:49m:09s - World Bank Senior Managing Director and Dutch-Austrian, Axel van Trotsenburg
0:55m:09s - Former co chair of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response and New Zealander, Helen Clark
1:09m:01s - Guyana
1:15m:27s - European Council president
1:20m:50s - Zimbabwe
1:24m:41s - San Marino
1:27m:31s - Mozambique
1:30m:22s - Cuba
1:34m:09s - Central African Republic
1:37m:30s - Bahamas
1:41m:18s - Bangladesh
1:46m:05s - Nepal
1:50m:31s - Haiti
1:54m:30s - Thailand
1:58m:03s - Malta
2:02m:04s - Brazil (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile)
2:08m:06s - Ethiopia
2:13m:36s - Vietnam
2:17m:24s - Kingdom of the Netherlands (the Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten)
2:21m:09s - Egypt
2:25m:20s - Rwanda
2:28m:36s - Indonesia
2:34m:55s - Singapore
2:39m:19s - Pakistan
2:43m:30s - Chile
2:47m:37s - Angola
2:51m:06s - Argel
2:55m:16s - Paraguay
2:58m:10s - Sierra Leone
3:02m:19s - Sweden
3:05m:47s - Kyrgyzstan
3:10m:02s - Kazakhstan
3:13m:19s - Ghana
3:17m:36s - Monaco
3:21m:18s - Hungary
3:25m:40s - Tajikistan
3:29m:13s - Israel
3:33m:42s - France
3:38m:01s - Barbados
3:42m:13s - Namibia
3:46m:07s - Nicaragua
3:50m:35s - Vatican
3:54m:22s - Uganda
3:57m:05s - Ivory Coast
4:00m:36s - Moldova
4:04m:25s - Slovakia
4:08m:00s - Tuvalu
4:11m:36s - Gabon
4:15m:15s - Gambia
4:19m:45s - Philippines
4:23m:37s - Argentina
4:27m:24s - Togo
4:31m:29s - Burkina Faso
4:35m:08s - Georgia
4:39m:03s - Malaysia
4:41m:56s - Belize
4:46m:42s - Peru
4:50m:53s - Germany
4:54m:29s - Romania
4:58m:17s - Australia
5:01m:46s - Japan
5:05m:18s - Estonia
5:09m:28s - Venezuela
5:12m:52s - Qaṭar
5:16m:00s - Lebanon
5:18m:44s - Bhutan
5:22m:40s - Uruguay
5:26m:06s - Italy
5:29m:50s - El Salvador
5:33m:44s - Denmark
5:36m:48s - Belgium
5:39m:53s - Jordan
5:43m:22s - Kuwait
5:47m:18s - Laos
5:51m:05s - Belarus
5:55m:12s - Iraq
5:59m:29s - Zambia
6:03m:26s - Tonga
6:07m:16s - Eritrea
6:10m:55s - Jamaica
6:14m:20s - Equatorial Guinea
6:19m:12s - Cameroon
6:22m:40s - East Timor
6:26m:21s - Mali
6:30m:10s - Senegal
6:33m:58s - Spain
6:37m:15s - North Macedonia
6:40m:13s - Kiribati
6:44m:10s - Botswana
6:48m:12s - Trinidad and Tobago
6:52m:19s - Ecuador
6:55m:25s - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
6:59m:02s - Sri Lanka
7:03m:06s - Uzbekistan
7:06m:42s - Great Britain and Northern Ireland
7:10m:26s - Lesotho
7:14m:37s - Somalia
7:19m:24s - Nigeria
7:23m:13s - Yemen
7:27m:22s - Norway
7:30m:51s - Papua New Guinea
7:35m:32s - Nauru
7:38m:56s - Tanzania
7:42m:05s - South Africa
7:45m:55s - Malawi
7:50m:14s - Kingdom of Eswatini
7:53m:52s - Ireland
7:57m:58s - Ukraine
8:01m:08s - South Korea
8:04m:24s - Bulgaria
8:07m:10s - Croatia
8:10m:08s - Russian Federation
8:14m:30s - Iran
8:17m:47s - Kenya
8:20m:58s - Finland
8:24m:00s - Bahrein
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