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L ‘World Health Organization allow its officials and collaborators do not use immunity and, therefore, go to declare, as requested by the Bergamo Prosecutor, as “persons informed of the facts” in the investigation into the failure to update the Italian pandemic plan. In short, this is the request made by the Italian Representation United Nations, at the request of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luigi di maio, sent to the WHO on December 11 with the aim, in particular, of allowing prosecutors to hear the investigator and rapporteur of the report Francesco Zambon, who reported to the deputy director to the organization, Ranieri War, to have it “Threatened”, write the guardian, in order to change the date of the pandemic plan, making it appear updated to 2017 when instead it was stopped in 2006. Facts that would have occurred before the publication of the document, on May 13, which disappeared from the WHO website some hours later. But the European section of the organization reports that “It was not Italy who asked for his removal”.
“In light of the excellent collaboration between Italy and the World Health Organization, which was further strengthened during the period of the pandemic COVID-19I ask you to consider, in the spirit of Article 22 of the aforementioned Convention, the possibility of allowing officials and experts to agree to the request of the Prosecutor’s Office to be heard as people informed of the facts, ”the letter reads.
In fact, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not have powers in terms of functional immunity invoked by officials of international organizations, even if they are Italian citizens. Therefore, only WHO can decide to waive the immunity of its officials and experts and allow them to be heard by prosecutors.
The WHO Regional Office for Europe, which posted the report on the site and then removed it the next day, said “at no point did the Italian government ask the World Health Organization to remove the document.” , but that the same organization decided it “with the intention of correcting the errors and republishing it”, which however did not happen. And then they added that “the transparency Ensuring credibility and trust in WHO information, advice and guidance is critical in all communications. Due to the great interest of the media in this report and to avoid misinterpretation, WHO is available to share the withdrawn document, upon request. To receive a copy ”just make a request. WHO “maintains frank and direct communication with governments.” And he affirms “to act impartially and without fear of reprisals or expectations of favoritism. To preserve its objectivity and independence, the Organization does not get involved in any political, administrative or legal matter at the national level ”.
It was last November 5 when the prosecutors heard Ranieri Guerra to reconstruct the situation of the national and regional pandemic plans, with the minutes that were classified. The 30th of November Report spread the news that the organization has invoked diplomatic immunity for its investigators, which the magistrates wanted to hear as witnesses, with a note to the Prosecutor’s Office and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Health Luigi di maio me Roberto Speranza, in which he affirmed that his investigators are not obliged to answer questions from the magistrates due to their special condition. The organization has also invited its investigators not to appear before prosecutors who are trying to understand why, on May 13, a pandemic plan drawn up by Zambon published then withdrawn After a few hours.
In early December, as requests for clarification and transparency multiplied, the organization declared that the withdrawal is linked to the fact that the report “contained errors” and that Guerra, however, was heard “in a personal capacity” and explained that “the WHO does not normally get involved in legal matters at the national level” to “preserve its objectivity and independence.” Speaking in an interview with Daily occurrenceGuerra himself declared yesterday that this document contained “many errors, but I have not censored it.”
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