Trump threatened to permanently halt funding for the WHO if it did not commit to improvements within 30 days, and to reconsider U.S. membership of the agency
- U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Monday to permanently halt funding for the World Health Organization if it did not commit to improvements within 30 days, and to reconsider his country’s membership of the agency.
Trump said in the letter the only way forward for the WHO was for it to demonstrate independence from China, adding that his administration had started discussing reform with Tedros. “The U.S. leadership’s open letter is filled with phrases of suggestions, maybes, and potentialities, and is trying to mislead the public through this specious method, to achieve the goal of smearing and slandering China’s efforts in epidemic prevention and to shift responsibility in its own incompetence in handling the epidemic,” Zhao told a regular briefing.Zhao said the U.S. decision to stop contributing to the WHO was a violation of its international obligations.
More than 4.75 million people have been infected globally and 314,414 have died, according to a Reuters tally.This year, the United States has already paid the WHO about $58 million, senior Trump administration officials said last month, half of what it is required to pay for 2020 - known as an assessed contribution.
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