Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed support on Friday for the role of the World Health Organization in the campaign against the new coronavirus, in contrast with U.S. President Donald Trump who has vowed to cut U.S. funding to the agency. Abe told a news conference he had told fellow Group
TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed support on Friday for the role of the World Health Organization in the campaign against the new coronavirus, in contrast with U.S. President Donald Trump who has vowed to cut U.S. funding to the agency.
"There's only the WHO that can serve as an international institution" to address the pandemic, he said. He has sought to blame it for mismanaging the crisis and not doing more to press China for transparency when the virus first took hold.
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