a joint statement that they would not comply with the treaty.

On 20 May 2025 at the World Health Assembly (WHA), 124 members of the WHO adopted WHOPA, while 11 countries, including Poland, Israel, Italy, Russia, Slovakia and Iran, abstained. The United States was in the process of withdrawing from the WHA and declined to participate in the vote, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,