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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-941/
- Published: 2024-04-03T17:30:51.000Z
- Updated: 2024-04-02T22:50:44.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-06-28 02:24

> World leaders are reigniting calls for a pandemic agreement to be finalised, more than two years since negotiations began.  
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> Among them is former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark, who told *Stuff’s* daily news podcast, [Newsable](https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/newsable/?ref=goodoil.news), that it’s “almost incomprehensible” no resolution has been reached, with a May 2024 deadline now just weeks away.  
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> Clark has added her name to [an open letter,](https://gordonandsarahbrown.com/2024/03/pandemic-accord-joint-letter/?ref=goodoil.news) alongside Dame Jenny Shipley and the likes of former United Nations General Secretary Ban-ki Moon and ex-UK Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, urging accelerated progress on the global deal.  
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> “The negotiations, if one can call them that, have been extremely difficult”, she said.  
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> “The process does not seem to have been a good one. Normally when you’re going to negotiate a text you need a draft on the table a long time before.”  
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> “They appeared to follow a process of putting everything, but the kitchen sink, on the table and everybody commented on that and went round and round in circles”, Clark added.  
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> Stuff

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