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By Robin MILLARD Genève (AFP) - Faute de consensus, les pays qui tentent depuis plus de deux ans de boucler un accord sur la prévention et la lutte contre les pandémies ont décidé vendredi de poursuivre les négociations et sauvegarder les progrès accomplis. "Ils ont travaillé très dur pour aller aussi loin que possible et trouver un terrain d'entente mais nous n'y sommes pas encore. Nous allons donc poursuivre notre travail", a déclaré le co-président Roland Driece à quelques journalistes au siège de l'Organisation mondiale de la santé à Genève. C'est l'Assemblée mondiale de la santé (AMS), l'...
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By Robin MILLARD Genève (AFP) - Les négociations marathon pour tenter de trouver un consensus historique sur la prévention et la lutte contre les pandémies entrent dans leur dernière ligne droite vendredi à Genève, mais un accord reste incertain. Il ne reste a priori qu'une journée si le calendrier et la date butoir du 10 mai sont respectés, après deux ans de discussions et de marchandages acharnés. Le souvenir des millions de morts, de la souffrance, des injustices et des immenses dégâts économiques de la pandémie de Covid-19, qui avait incité les 194 pays membres de l'Organisation mondiale d...
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Nations made progress on a treaty to end plastic pollution as their fourth round of talks finished early Tuesday in Canada. For the first time in the process, negotiators discussed the text of what is supposed to become a global treaty. Delegates and observers at the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution called it a welcome sign that talk shifted from ideas to treaty language at this fourth of five scheduled meetings. Most contentious is the idea of limiting how much plastic is manufactured. That remains in the text despite strong objections from plastic-producing countr...
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By Robin MILLARD Genève (AFP) - Il s'agit de protéger efficacement et équitablement le monde de futures pandémies: les négociations de la dernière chance commencent lundi à l'OMS pour trouver un consensus autour d'un projet d'accord sur un texte déjà édulcoré de certains de ses aspects les plus disputés. Après deux années de travaux, les négociateurs ont dû se rendre à l'évidence le mois dernier: il leur faut plus de temps pour tenter de se mettre d'accord sur ce texte historique sur la prévention, la préparation et la réponse aux futures pandémies. Le temps presse, il doit être adopté lors de...
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The European Union has voted in favour of ratifying the High Seas Treaty. This treaty aims to protect marine life in areas that are outside of countries’ maritime borders including the high seas and the seabed. The decision is a key step in the process of approving the ratification of the High Seas Treaty. The Parliament’s decision will now be formally adopted by the European Council, after which the EU will be ready to deposit its “instrument of ratification” at the United Nations (UN). It has been classified as a “mixed agreement” by the EU, which means it needs to be ratified at both the EU...
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Moscow (AFP) - Russian lawmakers voted on Tuesday to revoke Moscow's ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, moving closer to abandoning a landmark agreement that outlaws the testing of nuclear weapons. The move comes after President Vladimir Putin said earlier this month he was "not ready to say" whether Russia needed to carry out live nuclear tests. Lawmakers in the State Duma lower house of parliament unanimously approved the de-ratification bill in its first reading, with 412 voting for and none voting against. The bill can be signed into law by Putin after passing thre...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden announced Friday that the United States has fully destroyed its decades-old stockpiles of chemical weapons, a milestone hailed as completing the elimination around the world of all known stores of the agents of mass death. "Today, I am proud to announce that the United States has safely destroyed the final munition in that stockpile -- bringing us one step closer to a world free from the horrors of chemical weapons," Biden said. The United States was the last of the signatories of the Chemical Weapons Convention, which came into effect in 1997, to complet...
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Nairobi (AFP) - The United Nations on Wednesday agreed to start negotiating a world-first global treaty on plastic pollution in what has been hailed as a watershed moment for the planet. Nearly 200 nations at the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi unanimously agreed to create an intergovernmental committee to negotiate and finalise a legally binding plastics treaty by 2024. UNEA chair Espen Barthe Eide declared the resolution passed with a strike of the gavel -- itself made from recycled plastic -- as the assembly hall erupted into cheers and applause. "We are making history today. You should ...
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Nairobi (AFP) - The United Nations on Wednesday agreed to start negotiating a world-first global treaty on plastic pollution in what has been hailed a watershed moment for the planet. Nearly 200 nations at the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi unanimously agreed to create an intergovernmental committee to negotiate and finalise a legally binding plastics treaty by 2024. UNEA chair Espen Barthe Eide declared the resolution passed with a strike of the gavel as the assembly hall erupted into cheers and applause. "We are making history today. You should all be proud," said Eide, who is Norway's c...
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Geneva (AFP) - World nations gather Monday to thrash out whether to pursue a pandemic treaty setting out how to handle the next crisis -- which experts fear is only a matter of time. The three-day meeting at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva comes with the planet still besieged by Covid-19, nearly two years on from the first recorded cases. The economic turmoil and millions of lives lost have triggered calls for new international defences strong enough to prevent a repeat disaster. "We will have more pandemics in the future. The question is not if, but when," Jaouad Mahjour, the WH...
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