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Additional GSTHR Quote

Speaking on behalf of the GSTHR, Professor Gerry Stimson commented: “Having observed the WHO’s activities on this issue for some time, many are unsurprised that the FCTC COP10 meeting papers reveal a concerning direction of travel. The WHO and FCTC Secretariat’s refusal to engage with evidence from multiple countries that have witnessed accelerated declines in smoking rates is unscientific and unjustifiable. Their repeated characterisation of safer nicotine products as a threat to tobacco control runs directly counter to what should be the overarching goals of the Convention – to reduce smoking-related deaths and disease as rapidly and effectively as possible.

COP10 Has Been Postponed to 2024. Is This Good or Bad For Tobacco Harm Reduction?

November 16, 2023 – VapingPost

https://www.vapingpost.com/2023/11/16/cop10-has-been-postponed-to-2024-is-this-good-or-bad-for-tobacco-harm-reduction/

COP10 Postponed (Planet of the Vapes)

https://www.planetofthevapes.co.uk/news/vaping-news/2023-11-15_cop10-postponed.html

COP10 and MOP3 postponed to 2024

https://fctc.who.int/newsroom/news/item/09-11-2023-cop10-and-mop3-postponed-to-2024

Dates announced for the resumed in-person sessions of COP10 and MOP3

https://fctc.who.int/newsroom/news/item/27-11-2023-dates-announced-for-the-resumed-in-person-sessions-of-cop10-and-mop3

FCTC (HOME PAGE)

https://fctc.who.int/

CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES (DECISIONS)

https://fctc.who.int/who-fctc/governance/conference-of-the-parties

COP10 – HOME PAGE

https://fctc.who.int/who-fctc/governance/conference-of-the-parties/tenth-session-of-the-conference-of-the-parties

COP10 – MAIN DOCUMENTS

https://storage.googleapis.com/who-fctc-cop10/Main%20documents/index.html

GSTHR – FCTC and the Conference of the Parties (COP) An explainer (updated April 2023)

https://gsthr.org/resources/briefing-papers/the-framework-convention-on-tobacco-control-fctc-and-the-conference-of-the-parties-cop-an-explainer-updated-april-2023/the-framework-convention-on-tobacco-control-fctc-and-the-conference-of-the-parties-cop-an-explainer-updated-april-2023/

How the World Health Organization helped kill a promising made-in-Canada vaccine

Feb 12, 2023

https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/how-the-world-health-organization-helped-kill-a-promising-made-in-canada-vaccine/

WHO Report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2023

https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/372043/9789240077164-eng.pdf?sequence=1

First Quantum’s Panama future in jeopardy after top court says mine contract unconstitutional

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/article-first-quantums-panama-future-in-jeopardy-after-top-court-says-mine/

ADDITIONAL CLIVE BATES COMMENT

Clive Bates: “Generally, we should want international institutions to function efficiently and do the job they are meant to do. In this case, WHO and the Secretariat are doing neither. If they are going to do something as bad as they were planning for COP 10, then maybe it’s better that the meeting is in disarray.  My guess is that it will be difficult to get it back on track that easily, given the problems of civil disorder and question marks over the contracts.

NOTES

• The WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) provisional agenda for COP9, was released on August 5th, and it had indicated that the health agency’s report on emerging nicotine products, including e-cigarettes, had been postponed to the next convention taking place in 2 years’ time.
• ‘de minimis’ virtual session happened?

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