SovCo Salutes RFK Jr. for Denouncing the World Health Assembly’s Latest Power-grab, Calls for “Reboot” of the Whole International Public Health System

Emphasis on “Lean, Efficient and Accountable” Alternative

***PRESS RELEASE***
For Immediate Release

May 20, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. issued a powerful video statement on the occasion of the adoption today of a new Pandemic Preparedness and Response Agreement at the World Health Assembly’s annual meeting in Geneva. He excoriated the World Health Organization (WHO) for becoming “like many legacy institutions…mired in bureaucratic bloat, entrenched paradigms, conflicts of interest, and international power politics.”

The Sovereignty Coalition believes that the cogency of Secretary Kennedy’s remarks and their stark repudiation of the WHO and its sordid record of malfeasance, corrupt modus operandi and assault on national sovereignty deserve to be reproduced at length. Highlights included:

While the United States has provided the lion’s share of the organization’s funding historically, other countries such as China have exerted undue influence over its operations in ways that serve their own interests and not particularly the interests of the global public.

This all became obvious during the Covid pandemic, when the W.H.O., under pressure from China, suppressed reports at critical junctures of human-to-human transmission, and then worked with China to promote the fiction that Covid originated from bats or pangolins, rather than from a Chinese government sponsored research at a bio lab in Wuhan.

Not only has the W.H.O. capitulated to political pressure from China, it's also failed to maintain an organization characterized by transparency and fair governance by and for its member states. The W.H.O. often acts like it has forgotten that its members must remain accountable to their own citizens, and not to transnational or corporate interests.

Too often…now, priorities have increasingly reflected the biases and interests of corporate medicine. Too often, it has allowed political agendas like pushing harmful gender ideology to hijack its core mission. And too often, it has become the tool of politics and turned its back on promoting health and health security. Global cooperation on health is still critically important to President Trump and myself, but it isn't working very well under the W.H.O.

As the failures of the Covid era demonstrate, the W.H.O. has not even come to terms with its failures during Covid, let alone made significant reforms. Instead, it has doubled down with the Pandemic agreement, which will lock in all of the dysfunctions of the W.H.O. pandemic response. Well, we're not going to participate in that.

We need to reboot the whole system, as we are doing in the United States. Here in the United States, we're going to continue to focus on infectious disease and pandemic preparedness. But we're also fundamentally shifting the priorities of our health agencies to focus on chronic diseases, which are prevalent in the United States….

I urge the world's health ministers and the W.H.O. to take our withdrawal from the organization as a wakeup call. It isn't that President Trump and I have lost interest in international cooperation. Not at all. We just want it to happen in a way that's fair and efficient and transparent for all the member states.

We've already been in contact with like-minded countries and we encourage others to consider joining us. We want to free international health cooperation from the straitjacket of political interference, by corrupting influences of the pharmaceutical companies, of adversarial nations, and their NGO proxies.

I would like to take this opportunity to invite my fellow health ministers around the world into a new era of cooperation. We don't have to suffer the limits of a more abundant W.H.O. Let's create new institutions or revisit existing institutions that are lean, efficient, transparent, and accountable. (Emphasis added throughout.)

The Sovereignty Coalition has warned, from its founding in April 2023, that the unaccountable and globalist nature of the WHO made necessary the United States’ termination of its membership in the organization, as well as its refusal to become party either to the Pandemic accord or one adopted last year that amended the WHO’s so-called International Health Regulations. The Coalition welcomes the decision made by President Trump with Secretary Kennedy’s strong support to exit the World Health Organization and to decline to be a party to the Pandemic treaty.

As was made clear in the course of the Coalition’s Seventh Sovereignty Summit on April 8^th and a four-hour X Spaces it co-sponsored and -hosted with Bill Ellmore on May 17^th, however, Americans may nonetheless be impacted by that accord. For example, the Pandemic treaty’s requirements that states parties impose health IDs on their citizens may result in international travel restrictions or vaccine mandates being imposed on U.S. tourists and other travelers.

Such IDs can also be used to institute, perhaps incrementally, the aggregation of other data that could be weaponized as part of a Chinese Communist Party-style social credit system (a.k.a. a “digital gulag”) and penalize infractions of the treaty’s censorship regime.

The Sovereignty Coalition anticipates that further evidence of malfeasance directed by the WHO or that arose pursuant to Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus’ politicized prescriptions regarding vaccines will come to light in a most important hearing being convened tomorrow at 2 p.m. ET by Senator Ron Johnson – the U.S. Senate’s foremost champion of national sovereignty and personal medical freedoms. The title of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs’ Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing says it all: “The Corruption of Science and Federal Health Agencies: How Health Officials Downplayed and Hid Myocarditis and Other Adverse Events Associated with the COVID-19 Vaccines.”

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