Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I will be very brief.
There has been a lot of talk about state obligations in terms of human rights and the right to health. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there are no penalties for failure to honour those obligations. Maybe that is why nothing concrete is happening. Pharmaceutical companies are powerful lobbyists and they're putting a lot of pressure on governments to not sign on to the TRIPS waiver.
Would be a good idea for a future treaty on pandemics to include sanctions against states that fail to fulfill their human rights and right to health obligations?