Tuesday, May 19, 2020

President Trump Gives World Health Organization 30 Days For 'Improvements'. Threatens Permanent Funding Freeze, End Of U.S. Membership



The Hill: Trump threatens permanent freeze on WHO funding without 'major' reforms within 30 days

President Trump on Monday threatened to permanently halt U.S. funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) if the body does not commit to "major substantive improvements" in the next 30 days.

The president, in a letter to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, levied a series of allegations that the global health entity overlooked or ignored various warning signs about the coronavirus and criticized its stance toward China during the pandemic.

"We do not have time to waste," he wrote. "That is why it is my duty, as President of the United Staes, to inform you that, if the World Health Organization does not commit to major substantive improvements within the next 30 days, I will make my temporary freeze of United States funding to the World Health Organization permanent and reconsider our membership in the organization."

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Update: Trump Gives WHO 30 Days for 'Improvements', Threatens Permanent Funding Freeze, End of US Membership (Sputnik).

WNU Editor: Barring Taiwan from attending today's WHO summit. Vague promises to have an independent  evaluation/review. No sense of accountability from the World Health Organization during Monday's summit that under their watch a terrible pandemic is now gripping the world. What we had instead was the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres blaming other countries instead of WHO .... As US claims WHO ‘failure’, UN chief scolds countries that ‘ignored’ its warnings (France 24). With such rot at the top, there is no way that a vaccine or treatment will be coming from WHO. It has become politicized. And it is clear from today's summit that rhetoric aside, there is going to be no clean-up of the organization or reforms. Not now. Not later.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

What a cunt Tedros is. I hope he gets frog marched into an international court. Looks like he got blood on his hands, and on top is very politically driven - with respect to Taiwan and China. The world cannot afford a partisan liar at the head of an organisation that should look out for the health of the world. He seems to have done the opposite. The only question remaining is this: how much did he get paid for his deception? How much blood is on his hands and how many decades of hard prison will he get? He might have killed tend of thousands by his actions - together with Xi - and we should treat both as high criminals. An international court appointment should be next. What a disgrace he is. I hope evidence is being gathered now. The World cannot accept such despicable deception. Resign today and make it easy on you. Keep lying and we will bring the full force of law on you.

Anonymous said...

Follow the money trail. There will be a financial link between PRC and Tedros’s wife/kids/relatives.

Anonymous said...

Another by Trump.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/19/trump-who-letter-error-267995