New Delhi, May 20 -- Members of the World Health Organization (WHO), who met on May 19 in Committee A of the World Health Assembly, approved a resolution that called for the adoption of an historic global compact to make the world safer from future pandemics, the organisation said in a statement.

The WHO Pandemic Agreement will next be considered for final adoption by the Assembly on May 20 during the plenary session.

The approval of the pandemic agreement resolution follows a more than three-year process, launched by governments during the COVID-19 pandemic. Its aim was to negotiate the world's first such accord to address the gaps and inequities in preventing, preparing for and responding to pandemics.

"This watershed agreement was ...