The head of Donald trump announced the severance of U.S. relations with the world health organization.
The American leader explained his decision by saying that the who didn't want to spend the required Washington reform. The White house added that now the US will redirect the funds that were intended for the organization on the urgent health care throughout the world.
before trump sent to the Director of the global health organization to Tedros Adhanom gebreyesus the letter, which threatened to stop the funding and to revise the membership if the who during the month will not reform. According to his statement, the us administration found evidence of a failure of the response organization for a pandemic coronavirus.
the letter noted that who As if to ignore messages about the spread of infection in Wuhan in early December of last year and has not conducted an independent investigation. The United States also argued that the organization knew about the "emergency health" by the end of 2019, but did not disclose the data obtained from Taiwan.
According to trump, who has also not decided on the admission of international experts to China and approved of the decision of Beijing to ban the movement inside the country were against the closure of U.S. borders or ban on entry for those arriving from China.
General Director of the organization did not want to explain the ultimatum of the American government.
for its part, Russia criticized the U.S. Position. As drew the attention of the Minister for foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov, Moscow is concerned about the defamation of the who. The diplomat drew attention that any organization needs to improve its performance, however this should be done through constructive dialogue.
the Commissioner of the Ministry Maria Zakharova also called inappropriate attempts of the US capital to turn the who into a platform for data of political accounts, the most in a confrontation coronavirus.
The US position was supported also by the European Union, whose members urged to unite around the organization in these difficult circumstances.
the foreign Ministry of China, explaining the letter of the trump, I noted that the American authorities are trying to absolve themselves of blame for the ineffectiveness of the preventive measures against COVID-19.
The world health organization declared the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. According to the final data, the number of infected over 5, 6 million, about 350 thousand people died.
The latest information on the situation of COVID-19 in Russia and the world presented on the portal stopmanager. Of the Russian Federation.
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