The United States has urged the World Health Organization to invite Taiwan to attend its annual general meeting as an observer to use the island’s “experience” in the fight against COVID-19, a position China strongly opposes.
We strongly invite Taiwan to participate as an observer and contribute its expertise to the debate on finding solutions at the seventy-fifth session of the World Health Assembly, whose meetings in the USA began this weekend. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said in a statement.
The US secretary said that “the unprecedented health threat we face today requires close international cooperation” and that “Taiwan’s invitation…
The US continues to praise Taiwan’s handling of COVID-19 and criticizes China’s response to the pandemic.
But China, which sees the island as an important part of its territory, has caused the World Health Organization to remove Taiwan from its observer status until 2016.
And the United States, like most countries in the world, does not officially recognize Taiwan, but has strongly supported the island and for many years, first under former President Donald Trump and then under the current President Joe Biden, the United States became an observer in Taiwan. in the Globalization of the WHO.the call to restore his status is meaningless.
In a statement, Blinken stressed that his country will “continue to support Taiwan’s membership in international organizations whose membership does not require state status, and to encourage Taiwan’s meaningful participation in organization of which it may not be a member. ”
Source: AFP
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