RESOLUTION UNITED AGAINST THE

PANDEMIC

Number: VMUN/2020/DigitalConference/GA/RES/001
Topic: Assessing the effects and preventing the further spread of COVID - 19
Sponsors: Federal Republic of Germany
Signatories:

The United Nations General Assembly,

Noting with great concern the threat to human health, safety and well-being
caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which
continues to spread globally,

Recognizing the unprecedented effects of the pandemic, including the severe

disruption to societies and economies, as well as to global travel and
commerce, and the devastating impact on the livelihood of people,

Recognizing also that the poorest and most vulnerable are the hardest hit by the
pandemic and that the impact of the crisis will reverse hard-won development
gains during implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),

Recognizing further the central role of the United Nations system in catalysing
and coordinating the global response to control and contain the spread of
COVID-19, and acknowledging in this regard the crucial role played by the
World Health Organization,

Welcoming the call by the Secretary-General to tackle the health emergency

and focus on the social impact and economic response measures and his
emphasis on the need for a sustainable and inclusive recovery,

Recognizing the efforts made by Governments as well as health-care workers

and other essential workers around the world to deal with the pandemic
through measures to protect the health, safety and well-being of their people,

Acknowledging the need for all relevant stakeholders to work together at the
national, regional and global levels to ensure that no one is left behind,

1. Affirms that the Coronavirus Pandemic must be dealt with first in order to
achieve medical security and economic stability for the world;

2. Further condemns certain governments for their opaque and unclear

method of counting casualties due to the unfortunate COVID 19
 Pandemic and requests such governments to avoid such an option so as to
aid the World Community as a whole;

3. Further suggests the world community to kindly note the Bhilwara and
Agra Models of Quarantine to mitigate spread of the Coronavirus
pandemic;

4. Notes with satisfaction the importance of amplified amount of testing and

testing kits and henceforth suggests the world community to take note of
the German Model of Testing and other such relevant models of testing
so as to test maximum number of people in a short time with efficient
results;

5. Further condemns the ideology of herd immunity in light of this

pandemic and urges countries pursuing this to kindly not do so and
adhere to basic WHO guidelines and UN Rules so as to ensure safety of
such citizens;

6. Notes with concern the need to secure the interests and healthcare for
doctors and frontline health workers, owing to the fact that they are the
most important people in the fight against COVID 19 and hence some
ways to secure them are the following, but not limited to:

a. Allotting a mandatory amount of medical equipment and

Personal Protective Equipment for the health workers;
b. Urging countries to enact laws and ordinances in order to
guarantee protection for them in these times;
c. Recommends set-up of a voluntary continual chain of
supply of basic essentials to the families of health workers
and doctors in order to sustain their families;
d. Cash dividends and bonuses from the government’s side in
order to recognize their unconditional contribution;
e. Letting them to express their opinions on a global front;
f. Providing them with a recommended time-table of shifts in
order to not stress up and at the same time to provide
physical relaxation to the doctor;
g. Set-up of mental relaxation centres in hospitals so as to
make sure the doctors are mentally stable and are calm and
composed for the same;
h. Provision of medical drugs or consumables when asked by
the doctor albeit with notification to the particular
institution about the same;
7. Calls upon economically sound nations(nations described by UNDP
reports as developing or developed nations) to adopt a Counter Cyclic
Fiscal Policy, cutting interest rates to boost total aggregate demand and
urges any Central banks(banks which have a significant government
footing) to buy low- yield securities to buy long term bonds so as to
encourage lending;

8. Recommends for countries to mandate for equalized distribution of

medical equipment producing facilities and not concentrate all of them in
one country so as to prevent implications of transport time and other
relevant factors;

9. Requests countries to set up jurisprudential laws so as to ensure continual

production and equalized distribution and export of medical equipment
and set up of strategic stockpiles of the same so as to be prepared for the
next pandemic;

10.Calls upon countries to develop standardized and centralized effective

healthcare systems so as to emphasize on its impacts of managing
patients and at the same time curing them;

11.Recommends nation states to set up a common economic task force under

the UN but with recommendatory powers from UNCTAD called the
Future Aversion of Recession Task Force (Henceforth to be called FART
Force) which would work in tandem with UNCTAD to put to practice the
solutions regarding recession aversion or economic stabilization and shall
hold recommendatory powers towards nation states regarding economy of
that particular state;

12.Calls upon Jointly financed bodies like United Nations Economic

Commission for Europe and relevant bodies to suggest solutions and
guide central banks in every continent through this recession by granting
 valuable suggestions regarding maintaining repo rates, liquidity rates,
low-yield bonds etc;

13.Approves for the set-up of an integrated technology and breakthrough hub

in each continent for technological breakthroughs and as distribution
centres for COVID-19 Pandemic-related medical and financial equipment
and directs the nations to stop production of all non-essential sectors and
direct production towards Personal Protective Equipment and testing kits;

14.Suggests the UNSC to kindly call for countries with Aircraft Carriers
exceeding 30,000 tonnes in terms of displacement to be converted into
temporary floating hospitals;

15.Recommends for the usage of The Shipping Fund Programme established

by the Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System as a
mechanism to test clinical samples at international referral laboratories
from patients who meet the suspect‐case definition;

16.Further draws attention for the creation of a Task Force under the WHO
with recommendatory powers from the UN and Doctors Without Borders,
consisting only of doctors from all around the world and this body shall
have the power to assign teams of doctors to different countries with
different agendas and their main work would include but is not limited to:

a. Assessing the health care system of the country;

b. Informing governments about the changes required to be

made;

c. Sending reports to the body regarding progress of their

agenda;

d. Statistical interpretation of spread or mitigation of any

diseases;

e. Maintaining a list of diseases identified in their particular

area;
 f. Notifying governments on any identification of pre-
pandemic and pre epidemic notions so as to increase the
level of preparedness of the said countries;

g. If countries have a stable health system, then to oversee the

implementation of this health system;

h. Notify countries regarding stock of medicines used and

their effectiveness;

17.Further Suggests the World Health Organization to cooperate with the

World Bank and the International Monetary Organization in order to set
up an Emergency Medical Equipment and Financial Assistance Fund
(Henceforth to be called as EMEFAF) so as to supply such equipment to
countries in need of it at the time of a crisis like COVID-19 and
immediately recommends for the deposition of USD 50 Billion Dollars as
Provisional Amount for the same;

18.Further requests for the complete transparency from nations regarding

number of Coronavirus cases, number of deaths and the results of any
vaccine or an approved pharmaceutical drug test from private
actors/companies to be sent directly to the WHO;

19.Further resolves that the three policy priorities to combat coronavirus—

social insurance, systemic risk management, and spatio-behavioral
management—may be more and less aggressively pursued by the range
of public and private actors present, and may be more or less effectively
advanced by the various policy instruments;

20.Suggests the formation of a technological Hub for COVID-19 to find

technological solutions and assisting people under quarantine or isolation;

21.Suggests on defining a Companies of Economic Importance (CoEI) as a

company which performs the following functions and can be decided
 upon by the particular member states of WTO and its abiding states as a
company which performs the following functions:

a. Employs at-least more than 300 employees;

b. Files taxation statements periodically and is subject to
economic laws of the particular government;
c. Has a turnover of about a certain amount and paid-up capital,
both of which shall be decided by the state;
d. Imports or exports goods and services which are deemed by
the state as important and top priority goods and services;
e. If the company is involved in extraction or processing of any
natural resource, then it is highly recommended that it shall
be designated as a CoEI;
f. The state government has a certain amount of minority stake
in the form of public sector company holdings or
conglomerates;

22.Highly Condemns to the maximum degree of hostile takeovers of CoEIs

by certain countries in particular in these times of crisis and hence
recommends for the creation of an Internationally Comprised
Independent Bench of Legal Advisors who shall be effectively exploited
by any nation in case of a negative integral company takeover with it
having the following functions:

a. Advising the affected nation regarding its legal routes to

reprimand the country;

b. Representation on behalf of the affected host country to

scrutinize the host country in case of domestically
sponsored hostile takeovers in the Appellate Tribunal of the
WTO with considerable impact from the GATT Guidelines;

c. Recommendatory powers to have a jurisprudential effect on

the affected company and a considerable say in its
preliminary management;

d. In case a company has been taken over in a hostile manner

by any state-funded lender, then the Bench of Legal
Advisors can advise the host nation regarding legal routes
and economic routes in order to obtain a compensation for
the same;
23.Further draws attention to the case if the country is a developing,
economically unstable or a low-income country, with reference to
subsequent reports from the United Nations Development Programme
and the Human Development Index, is in any way unable to allocate
funds in order to protect its CoEI, then it shall be given jurisdiction to
draw the allocated funds from the EMEFAF and support its CoEIs
provided it provides the following details, including but not limited to:

a. Distribution of mandated funds;

b. Documentation and break-up of funds;

c. Number of certified CoEIs present in the country;

d. Allocation of funds per CoEI;

e. Deficit funds, if any;

f. Mandatable usage of excess funds for increment in paid up

capital as mandated with prior permission from IMF;

24.Recommends for the creation of a disputes and real-time economic and

regulatory-recommendatory powers in lieu of Foreign Direct Investment
(FDI) management body for managing grievances during any pandemic
or any other such times, directly under the WTO, with the following
functions, including but not limited to:

a. Attending to the grievance of a particular country

regarding its economy or intrusion of economy via
FDI by any hostile government;

b. Solving and recommending disputed countries to

manage any economic offset;

c. Hold any country accountable if any economic

sabotage or damage is caused by it;

d. Demand for documents regarding FDI by any country

and relate it to the current statistics provided by the
disputed country so as to come to an impartial
judgement;
 e. Set up of new guidelines for FDI policies which shall
include but not be limited to:

i. Set of International Investment Protection

Laws, in lieu to Chapter 11 of NAFTA so as to
give host countries the right to protect their
companies from hostile takeovers;

ii. Set-up of an Emergency Fund, which can be

exploited by countries, to protect from hostile
takeovers and pump in much financial aid to the
affected companies;

iii. Amendment of the Technical Barriers to Trade

(TBT) to give States much more power to
regulate imported and exported products and
use collective production process verification
for any company as an effective judicia-
prudential way to solve such a quandary;

iv. To set-up FDI Agreements between the hostile

state and the host state in order to initiate a
positive influence and integration of host nation
with International Standards of Conformity for
the prevention of Hostile Takeovers;

v. Calls for amendment of Article III of the GATT

so as to differentiate between non-
discrimination laws and ideals of state
protectionism;

25.Further deplores and objectionably condemns the excessive import and

usage of Personal Protective Equipment by certain nations and requests
them not to do so in these times of crises;

26.Further calls upon nations to ban non-essential trade of any means

whatsoever;
27.Suggests that if it is identified that a certain drug has been found to be
useful against fighting any pandemic or widespread outbreak, then the
countries that produce such medical drugs or have an abundance of such
medical drug production units to kindly accelerate it once information is
released regarding it so as to benefit all countries as a whole;

28.Highly recommends for the set-up of an emergency distribution scheme,

set-up by the UN, so as to abolish monopoly on international Supply
chains of Personal Protective Equipment and other such medical
equipment and also look into effective distribution of these with
directional proportionality to the seriousness of the pandemic in a
particular country and requests countries to export or import medical
equipment via such exchange points, which shall be placed provisionally
along strategic regions on each continent to ensure centralized supply of
such equipment and this commission shall henceforth be called United
Nations Emergency Medical Equipment Distribution
Programme(UNEMEDP);

29.Further condemns the provision of faulty test kits and N 95 masks by

certain countries or companies and recommends nations in need of such
equipment to look for alternative sources of procurement so as to shield
countries from further damage and thus recommends countries to search
for alternative sources of production and begin importing from them;