The US president claims China exerts 'total control' over the Geneva-based UN health body. FMTNews
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Tuesday formally started the withdrawal of the US from the World Health Organization, making good on threats to deprive the UN body of its top funding source over its response to the coronavirus.
The withdrawal of the key WHO founding member is effective in one year – July 6, 2021. Joe Biden, Trump’s presumptive Democratic opponent in November elections, vowed he would immediately end the pullout if he won the White House. In line with conditions set when the WHO was set up in 1948, the US can leave within one year but must meet its remaining assessed financial obligations, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.In late May, Trump said that China exerted “total control” over the WHO and accused the UN body led by Tedros, an Ethiopian doctor and diplomat, of failing to implement reforms.
“To call Trump’s response to Covid chaotic and incoherent doesn’t do it justice,” said Senator Robert Menendez, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee. Even some of Trump’s Republican allies had voiced hope that he was exerting pressure rather than making a final decision to abandon the World Health Organization.
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