The ITGA hereby kindly and respectfully requests which you exercise your authority, as Secretary General of the United Nations and mother or father of the UN Charter, to make certain that the FCTC fulfils its duties underneath the Charter and operates in an inclusive and transparent way, “ITGA President Francois van der Merwe and CEO Antonio Abrunhosa wrote in a letter dated September 21, 2016.
They noted the institution’s “deep subject” over the WHO-FCTC plan to ban dozens of “appointed and elected officials” from the government, legislative and judicial branches of tobacco-growing international locations from participating inside the next CoP7 of the WHO-FCTC in November.
They agree with this is in direct contravention of Article 2 of the UN Charter, which states that “[t]he Organization is primarily based on the precept of the sovereign equality of all its Members.”
The ITGA reiterated that underneath the UN Charter, sovereign international locations have a proper to select their personal representatives to the UN without going through the threat of exclusion or intimidation from a UN employer.
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