New Zealand has declined to back a UN declaration welcoming the WHO Pandemic Agreement and the 2024 amendments to the International Health Regulations, after years of grassroots campaigning against both.
Former Prime Minister Helen Clark called the abstention “humiliating for NZ,” saying it “results from NZ 1st’s courting of the anti-vax vote.” Labour leader Chris Hipkins described it as “an embarrassment to New Zealand”.
At the UN General Assembly, 153 member states voted for the non-binding Political Declaration on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response. The US, Israel and Argentina voted against, and New Zealand and Paraguay abstained.
MFAT said New Zealand “does not support language welcoming the adoption of the Pandemic Agreement” and has rejected the 2024 IHR amendments. Any decision on signing the agreement will be informed by a full National Interest Test.
The decision was Foreign Minister Winston Peters’ to make. National MP Matt Doocey told Newsroom that National ministers supported voting for the declaration, but Cabinet approval was not required. Peters said NZ First “ensured the National Interest Test was included in the coalition agreement to keep our sovereign decision-making with New Zealand, not Geneva”.
RCR has published over 100 interviews and articles on the WHO instruments. VFF’s head of legal, Katie Ashby-Koppens, has presented to the New Zealand, Australian and US governments. VFF says that campaigning helped make the treaties an election issue in 2023, leading to the coalition’s National Interest Test commitment.
“For all those who think their voices don’t matter… They do,” said VFF and RCR co-founder Alia Bland. “With the 2026 election approaching, the make-up of the next Parliament will shape what happens next”, she said.
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Good on you Winston. Clark and Hipkins and their ilk all need to be arrested for treason. Why Hipkins isn’t in Prison for wilfully endangering hundreds of thousands of young New Zealanders is beyond me.
Can’t disagree with you mate. Something very wrong with politics in NZ and the West.
Yep you are correct here… the West has been taken over by the Lefty Fascist Epstein Class… Something rotten in the West for sure… Hipkins and Clark and co… in Jail all of them… for treason and murder…and GBH for all suffering from those jabs…and compensation for all who lost jobs, businesses, homes etc… not to mention their minds…
The only real humiliating embarrassment for New Zealand is that Winston did not have the guts to vote against it, instead it seems he chose to sit on the fence.
Imperialists/Communists verses Sovereigntists/Individualists.
“Countries can and must do better, and work together with the urgency pandemic threats demand. This means finding a way through the impasse to agree to the PABS annex by May,” urged Helen Clark, co-chair of The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response.
With Only Three ‘No’ Votes, UN Adopts Political Declaration on Pandemic Preparedness.
https://healthpolicy-watch.news/un-adopts-political-declaration-on-pandemic-preparedness/
The Left used cvd – probably behind the whole thing since all Western govts were Left at the time – as their chance to install Socialism. It didn’t work so now theyve joined up with the muslims and Western Jew haters to further their evil plans. So Helen and Chippy being pro vax says it all. As for Ardern, Biden, Trudeau, Macron, Albo, Von derleydon and the rest, theyve eaten their own tails. Islam is a vicious enemy, we’ve got our work cut out for us.
Helen Clark is the chair of Gavi, the vaccine alliance, so no wonder she is angry. The woman shows her contempt for all those people who have died or are injured because of the covid gene therapy marketed as a vaccine. Kudos for Winston for his stance.
Winston deserves a prize for being the only petson who had been able to make Helen Clark menstruate again.
Keep ya nose of it Helen Clark ya witch.
GOAWAY HELEN you are not elected you voice is irrelevant.
U.N is a unelected organisation that has far too much say.
Former Prime Minister Helen Clark called the abstention “humiliating for NZ,” saying it “results from NZ 1st’s courting of the anti-vax vote.” Labour leader Chris Hipkins described it as “an embarrassment to New Zealand”.
Oh really Helen and Chris. Remind me again what happened to Labour after their Covid antics? If memory serves they scraped up 27% of the vote and were promptly turfed out of office by the public. What should that tell you both, if you were paying attention? Maybe that so called “anti-vaxxers” are not a minority after all. Maybe they are ordinary people like4 myself who believe they have the basic human right not to be coerced with job loss into taking an experimental vaccine and don’t feels its right they are excluded from society? Or for that matter get labelled an “anti-vaxxer”. By the way I have taken vaccines in the past but this one rang loud alarm bells and still does. Its a little thing called personal choice.
In any case this is one of those rare occasions when we get to see representative democracy. May not mean much, probably wont if there’s another Covid side show. That said, if you don’t like it feel free to move to Australia-stan or UK-stan. I wont miss either of you!
The “National Interest Test” will provide whatever result the fake democracy uni-party decides the result will be – just like their “Royal” Commissions. Fake procedures for a fake democracy.
What was the reason you removed the death penalty for treason? Buck toothed lesbian
hahahahaaaa… yep her little weasel man is a paltry excuse to cover up Clark in the Closet..the UN, the WHO, the WEF, the EU etc… all corrupt totally…infiltrated from within…hacked half a century ago at least…
What a choice this election. One side a bunch of sellouts on trade deals, big pharma, GMO’s, deepening ties with US military and on the other, another bunch of sellouts to carbon trading, the WHO, big pharma, apartied politics.
We are so ……
The word vote, somehow seems to be something to do with democracy. Regardless whether it is in parliament, the UN or whatever setting. We call this democracy.
I would argue that the general public has weighed and measured the outcome of the lasting effects of the pandemic. Some call it safety first. Others call it nonsense. I call it fraudulent, murder fraud, apartheid and the largest crime in all history.
Winston Peters is a representative of the government. It is unlikely he has carried out his instructions which would have been yes. Given Winstons character, i suspect he has not taken the middle ground. Instead, he has decided to not agree with the UN, while keeping New Zealanders safe from future pandemics.
Be thankful Winston not agreeing to future pandemics.
Voting time is dats away.
The greens voted for the last lockdowns and money handouts we still owe. Do not vote for them.
Labour voted for the last lockdowns and money handouts we still owe. Do not vote for them.
Maori voted for the last lockdows and the money handouts we still owe. Do not vote for them.
The only politician and political party I know who dares to traded a fine line with its Coalition is Winston Peters amd NZ First. No other parties ( the ones with enough support to make it to power) has been actively against it.
Trump was in office for all 2020 and the start of 2021. The UK had the Tories in charge the whole of covid.
What a load of crap. Islam hasn’t been attacking western countries. Islamic extremists mostly funded by the US, Israel and other western states have been.
From the jerusalem post: March 13, 2015
“Since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war, which has claimed the lives of upwards of 200,000 people, Israel has provided medical assistance to nearly 2,000 Syrians.
The Wall Street Journal quoted “an Israeli military official” who said that most of those treated were armed rebels fighting the regime.
“We don’t ask who they are, we don’t do any screening,” the official said. “Once the treatment is done, we take them back to the border and they go on their way.” ”
Isn’t that nice aye. Israel doesn’t ask who they are, if you can believe that. Oh, you’re just a friendly terrorist, no need to find out more about you, off you go, back to the weapons the US conveniently mistakenly dropped near your strongholds and you’re shiny saudi made toyota pickups and 4wds.
Look who is now in charge in Syria. A fully fledged leader of Al Qaeda, Al Nusra and Jabhat Al Sham. Former head chopper now shaking hands with Trump and Burnham.