UN response to US declaration on World Health Organization


  1. During a briefing on the Corona virus, President Donald Trump announced that he would withhold US funding for the World Health Organization.

  2. In response, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said: "The time will come when we will see how the outbreak has spread and how it has caused so much suffering globally." But now is not the time ... This is not the time for the World Health Organization to reduce its resources for health care operations. ”

  3. New Zealand's Prime Minister Jasnda Ardern has said, "At a time when we need to exchange information and we want to receive instructions that we can implement." This is what the World Health Organization did. We will continue to support it. '

  4. Elliott Engel, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the US House of Representatives, said: "As the situation of this crisis worsens, the president is showing his true political attitude. The World Health Organization should be blamed, China will be charged, political rivals should be blamed, or the heads of the people who lived before us. "

  5. However, President Trump has also received support from some leaders of his party, the Republican Party.

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