{"id":14745,"date":"2026-03-18T08:42:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oudensxolion.gr\/?p=14745"},"modified":"2026-03-18T08:42:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:42:05","slug":"new-zealand-formally-rejects-who-pandemic-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oudensxolion.gr\/?p=14745","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Formally Rejects WHO Pandemic Treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The country\u2019s government has formally written to the World Health Organisation rejecting the rules around international standards and cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New Zealand has formally rejected amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR), which lay out how World Health Organisation (WHO) member countries will handle future pandemics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Zealand\u2019s Ministry of Health described the IHR as the \u201cprincipal international legal framework for preventing and controlling the spread of disease between countries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foreign Minister Winston Peters announced the decision on X<\/a> on March 17 saying his party had \u201calways said that any decisions about the health of Kiwis should be made from Wellington, not Geneva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have fought on your behalf for these IHR amendments to be fully rejected, we made a promise to put the national interests of New Zealanders first, to maintain our sovereign decision making, and to push back on globalist bureaucrats\u2014and we have kept that promise,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Winston Peters in the Treaty Room of the State Department in Washington, DC, on March 18, 2025. Saul Loeb\/AFP via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Peters said New Zealand\u2019s permanent mission to the U.N. had informed the WHO\u2019s director general of the decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rejecting the WHO pandemic treaty was a condition<\/a> of New Zealand First joining the centre-right National Party and the libertarian ACT  to form the current government in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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