مدى قيام المسؤولية الدولية للصين عن تفشي وباء (COVID-i9)‎ أمام محكمة العدل الدولية

الملخص EN

The spread of the epidemic COVID-19 caused the declaration of a State Emergency in many countries of the world, which caused many precautionary decisions and measures in order to limit its spread among people, but it turned out to be having a great speed of spread causing the collapse of many health systems around the world, where it pushed governments to adopt measures that included social distancing, quarantine, isolation, and travel restrictions.

These measures, along with the virus itself, did not only had significant personal and human costs, but also it had a wider impact on the global economy.

As a result of all the losses and damages suffered by the countries, many of them insisted on accusing China - where the virus started - with international responsibility for all that happened, demanding compensation for all the resulting losses.

Given the extent to which China is responsible for this epidemic, we see that China bears a large part of responsibility as a result of everything the world suffered because of this epidemic China dealt with the international community with a lack of clarity and transparency, and did not provide the World Health Organization with all the information and studies necessary to prevent the spread of the epidemic from its inception, but rather insisted on asserting that all things were under control and that this virus does not constitute any danger to the world as it can be easily contained.

China, by hiding information and not clarifying the facts, has violated many international rules, whether in terms of international agreements such as the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, or the Constitution of the World Health Organization, which affirms the necessity of a State’s obligation to inform it of all relevant accurate information regarding any disease or health symptoms in the country which could affect the international community, in addition to violating the rules of customary international law by dealing with States and international organizations with the principle of good faith.