Chief officials of the World Health Organization (WHO) took advantage of this Friday todeclaration of an end to an international state of emergency Covid-19 to ask the international community to intensify negotiations on a treaty against future pandemics, which he hopes to have in 2024.

“We must promise ourselves that we, our children and grandchildren, We won’t make the same mistakes again lack of coordination and mistrust, which is why we are negotiating this agreement for future generations,” the WHO Director-General emphasized. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, after the end of the three-year state of emergency.

“Covid has changed the world and changed usThat is why we must not go back to what the shores used to be, otherwise we would not have learned the lesson, ”he warned.

WHO Director of Health Emergencies Mike Ryan added that “it is important that world leaders move forward in building a system that makes us remember these lessons and apply them with solidarity“.

Both Tedros and Ryan assured that the end of the health emergency due to Covid will not lessen the sense of urgency that WHO He believes that the treaty is being negotiated after five rounds of negotiations and is expected to be ready for the organization’s general assembly in May 2024.

The first conceptual draft of a possible treaty proposes to build a global system for the production and distribution of products to respond to the pandemic, in order to avoid a repetition of supply problems, which were especially highlighted by the covid at the beginning of 2020, when there were even shortages of masks.