It is my honor to welcome everyone to the first session of the world together, public

healing to inform the work of the WTO Intergovernmental Negotiation Body, INB, to draft and negotiate a W-H-U Convention Agreement

or other international instruments on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.

Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.

Welcome back to the Corporate Report.

I'm your host James Corporate of Corporate Report..com coming to you as always from the sunny

climbs of Western Japan here on the 27th day of April 2022.

And you're tuned into episode 417 of the Corporate Report Podcast,

The Global Pandemic Treaty,

what you need to know.

Now, as I'm sure everyone in the audience is already well aware,

that was Dr. Joad Modure, the Assistant Director General for Emergency Preparedness

and International Health Regulations of the World Health Organization, delivering an introductory statement for the public hearings regarding

a new international instrument on pandemic preparedness and response that was

empowered by the intergovernmental negotiating body

that was empowered by the World Health Assembly

in an instrument that they released in December,

authorizing the drafting and negotiating of a WHO Convention

Agreement or other international instrument on pandemic prevention preparedness and response.

I mean, of course, we all knew that, right?

Well, maybe you didn't know that, but as I will argue today, it is very much to our detriment that we do not know the details of what is going on, what is already happening, with regards to the formation of a new global

pandemic treaty that will be forwarded under the umbrella of the World Health

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