The ASH Workforce is in Geneva for the Eleventh Convention of the Events (COP11) of the WHO Framework Conference on Tobacco Management (FCTC) from November 17 – 22, 2025. We’ll share updates and progress right here for our neighborhood to remain engaged and knowledgeable all through COP11.
November 18, 2025 – At the moment the COP shifted in excessive gear and started debating substantive points. First on the docket is Article 2.1, Ahead-Trying Measures (FLMs). ASH has taken a lead on this concern for the civil society neighborhood for one vital motive – the report on FLMs that the COP is contemplating contains true endgame measures.
The controversy is much from over. At the least 20 Events objected to adopting a choice accepting the report. Their causes had been…poor. The FLMs aren’t an modification to the treaty; they’re merely doable measures nations can take. The choice “invitations Events to think about…” However apparently the Events opposed both didn’t learn or didn’t perceive, bellowing that the choice is an assault on sovereignty, an insult to nations that haven’t totally carried out the FCTC, and (my private favourite) it could result in a higher hole between the Events which have accomplished nothing and people who care about their peoples’ well being.
Luckily, way more Events expressed full help.
We will likely be again at it tomorrow. It’s probably that the Committee will set up a “drafting group” to go away and discover compromise language that may permit for consensus. That is the place it will get harmful. It might be that the one language the antis will settle for is so watered down as to be lower than ineffective. There could come a time when we’ve got to ask our pleasant delegations to let it drop. However we’re not there but, and after collaborating in over 20 treaty negotiating classes, I nonetheless give us a 70% probability of success.
At the moment ended within the early night, however tomorrow, and for the remainder of the week, we are going to probably be going to 11 pm or later because the COP realizes that it’s not on time (because it ALWAYS is). Typically, it’s fatigue itself that permits for consensus – one aspect merely outlasts the opposite. If that’s what it comes all the way down to, our possibilities improve to 100%, as a result of we’ve got the eagerness.
