Draft Resolution 1.

Sponsors: ​The United States of America, Federal Republic of Germany, United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland, People’s Republic of China
Signatories: ​Islamic Republic of Iran, The Commonwealth of Australia, French Republic,
Republic of India, Kingdom of Spain, Russian Federation
Committee: ​The World Health Organization
Agenda: ​“Analysing the political genesis and Proliferation of COVID-19”

The World Health Organisation,

Guided​ by the purposes, principles and provisions of the WHO Constitution,

Acknowledges​ the role of leadership by the World Health Organization and the fundamental
role of the United Nations system in the comprehensive global response to the
COVID-19 pandemic, and the efforts of countries in protecting their populations;

Appreciating​ the measures of governments taken to successfully contain the spread of the
pandemic and reinvigorate economic activities under a timely planned manner and providing
support to frontline individuals, medical staff and health personnel and essential workers whose
help is invaluable during this medical emergency specifically,

Convinced​ that the fight against COVID-19 would require a united, concise global response
action plan with member states working multilaterally and efficiently and with full solidarity in a
pan-global initiative of protecting all citizens of the world,

Recognizing t​ he work done by international financial organizations and humanitarian

organizations to combat the pandemic and extend social security nets to protect vulnerable
communities,

Deeply concerned​ by the large-scale deaths and human suffering caused by the COVID-19
pandemic and it threatens to reverse existing achievements on the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) and to undermine further progress,

Recognises​ that COVID-19 is a global crisis that does not respect national boundaries The
pandemic does not discriminate between race, gender, ethnicity or religion This crisis demands a
strong, coordinated, inclusive and coherent global response,
 1) Requests ​member nations to pledge to share timely and transparent information;
exchange epidemiological and clinical data; share materials necessary for research and
development, including on vaccines; and strengthen health systems globally, including
supporting the implementation of the WHO International Health Regulations (IHR 2005)
through appropriate channels:
(a) member nations are requested to uphold their standards and accountability mechanisms in
the support they provide, while committing to sharing evidence, best practice, data and
resources on what works to counter the virus, and learn lessons from the crisis and must
use the experience to inform policy choices during the recovery to fortify efforts to
achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;

2) ​Recommends​ an investigation into China about suspected origin of COVID 19 and

accusations of suppressing valuable information , through Interpol, in order to avoid the invasion
of its sovereignty and privacy;

3) ​Encourages​, the creation the green corridors, free from trade wars and
sanctions for the mutual supply of medicines, food, equipment and technology;

4) ​Suggests ​countries and their financial institutions to aim to maintain liquidity and cash
flow in the economy through a combination of lower interest rates and increased money supply
to prevent business bankruptcies and closures, increase government expenditure to increase
injections into the economy and help SMEs and sole traders sustain during the crisis,
post-pandemic strategies should ensure there is significant government intervention in the market
by:
(a) instituting cash transfers, wage subsidies, tax relief, unemployment benefits and
deferring the payment of loans and utility bills,
(b) eliminating tariffs for Personal Protective Equipments,
(c) minimise the risks of financial insecurity by facilitating the gradual design of a
‘new normality’,
(d) promote the production of merit goods and essential services through subsidies,
(e) coordinates towards the research and development and distribution of vaccines;

5) ​Recommends​ Governments should focus on supply-side policies to avoid interruptions

to production and ensure the appropriate function of the economy:
(a) Eligible expenditures could include security, partial unemployment schemes and support
targeted at specific sectors,
 (b) governments should aim for deregulation and privatisation and limit barriers to entry for
new firms whilst ensuring there is healthy business competition and prevent the
formation of an oligopolistic market,

6) ​Emphasizes ​the importance of allocating resources for improvement in the healthcare

and education sector post pandemic:
(a) governments can help finance the direct cost of improving hospital infrastructure
(especially the number of intensive care beds) and paying for the extra workload of
medical staff; and help finance indirect expenditures related to public health measures,
such as containment and school closures,
(b) strengthening health care facilities around the world for future readiness keeping in mind
the headwinds created by the viral contagion are likely temporary, but the economic
impacts are long lasting and world post pandemic will be different
(c) countries should also aim to create a dynamic national education programme and this will
enable countries to establish a healthy, efficient, flexible labour force and Countries
should help train the labour force to adapt to the ‘new normal’ post the pandemic keeping
the workforce relevant and useful
(d) technical assistance to quickly prepare and deploy inclusive distant learning solutions,
utilizing hi-tech, low-tech and no-tech approaches using selection of digital learning
resources that governments, schools, teachers, parents can use to open opportunities for
learners unable to attend school
(e) Using technological advancements in healthcare to speed up testing and usage of
technology for contact tracing and isolation;

7) ​Encourages​ member states to pursue international and intranational aid to cope up with
the crisis and provide financial and resource assistance by:

(a) instituting monetary measures like deferring bilateral and multilateral loans and
provide debt relief such as improving the capacity of the Containment and Relief
Trust by the International Monetary Fund [IMF] and using multilateral funds like
the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund and increasing its financial
assets,
(b) Develop a UBI (Universal Basic Income) as suggested by World Economic
Forum
(c) pay attention to non-monetary forms of aid such as:

(i) food packages and essential commodities by allowing their free movement
across borders and allow exceptions to delay due to lockdown and quarantine
protocols at border check posts,
 (ii) dispatching medical teams to lead multilateral initiatives in hard struck
regions and working with international humanitarian organizations like the Red
Cross and the Alliance For Multilaterals,

(iii) providing failproof Personal Protective Equipments and ensuring its equitable
distribution by easing global supply chains and exempting it from export
restrictions,

(iv) ensuring that required medicinal resources like masks, sanitizers and potential
treatment drugs like Hydroxychloroquine aren’t subject to price gouging,

(v) Pay attention to the financing of Global Public Goods and Research Aid
Network to bridge the gap between research and humanitarian aid sectors;

8) ​Suggests​ government policies and measures with regards to the COVID-19 pandemic
should not be discriminative on the basis of: sex, creed, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or
personal disabilities:
a) human dignity and humanity must be upheld through government policies and
measures,
b) more emphasis regarding social policies and measures must be aimed at the
vulnerable groups of the population,
c) supply of personal protective equipment must be made available to every
citizen,
d) governments should ensure that the population has access to food, potable
water and shelter in light of the COVID-19 pandemic;

9) ​Recommends​ countries to pay attention to the plight of citizens stranded on foreign soil as
students, migrants, non-resident citizens and ensure they have access to their respective
consulates as stated in the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations;

10) ​Encourages​ countries to follow decentralized measures and encourage a bottoms-up

approach to constructing economic policies and implement the same by:
(a) Encourage the removal of federal limitations of barriers of access to funds that can be
used to buy medical equipment and allow the easing of the disruption in supply chains,
(b) Recommending central governments to release pending tax arrears and allow for
autonomy in deciding
 (c) Following a “moral economy” approach by focusing on cash-support, food, cereals and
mental support by providing community kitchens, door-to-door delivery of pulses,
counseling centers and early release of welfare pensions in advance to follow
decentralized implementations

11) ​Requests​ nations to address the proliferation of disinformation and misinformation, as well
as malicious cyber-activities, that undermine the public health response, especially in the digital
sphere, and support the provision of clear, objective and science-based data and information to
the public;

12) ​Calls​ for intensified international cooperation and solidarity to collectively contain,
mitigate and defeat the COVID-19 pandemic, including coordinated mobilisation and use
of financial resources and joint efforts to improve access to necessary commodities and
their distribution, such as the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) accelerator.