EU Diplomats Want WHO To Close Its Regional Office In Russia Over Ukraine

The World Health Organization logo is pictured outside the old and the new WHO buildings, in Geneva, Switzerland, December 20, 2021. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse  

Reuters: EXCLUSIVE WHO members to consider shutting Europe hub office in Russia over Ukraine - document 

GENEVA/BRUSSELS, May 5 (Reuters) - World Health Organization states will consider a resolution against Russia next week after its invasion of Ukraine, including the possible closure of a major regional office in Moscow, a document obtained by Reuters showed on Thursday. 

The resolution, to be considered on Tuesday, stopped short of harsher sanctions such as suspending Russia from the U.N. global health agency's board as well as a temporary freeze of its voting rights, three diplomatic and political sources said. 

The draft, prepared largely by EU diplomats and submitted to the WHO's regional office for Europe this week, follows a request by Ukraine, signed by at least 38 other members including Turkey, France and Germany.  

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WNU Editor: The decision will be made next week.

20 EU Governments Back WHO Director Tedros For A Second Term

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus could become the head of World Health Organization for the second time.  

NDTV/AFP: Nearly 20 European Union Countries Back WHO Chief For Second Term  

Each country, among them Austria, France, Portugal and Spain, submitted a sealed envelope to the Geneva-based WHO.  

Geneva: Nearly 20 European Union countries nominated Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for a second term as head of the World Health Organization, shortly before the deadline passed on Thursday. 

WHO member states had until 1600 GMT to nominate candidates. 

Germany announced on Wednesday that it was proposing Tedros, who appears to be the only candidate in the running. 

"Today September 23rd, France and Germany, in coordination with a group of EU states, nominated Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros for the election of the @WHO Director-General to be held in May 2022," the permanent missions of France and Germany at the UN in Geneva both wrote in a tweet.  

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Update #1: France, Germany nominate WHO chief Tedros for a second term (AP)  

Update #2: Tedros poised for re-election at WHO as support grows -diplomats (Reuters)

WNU Editor:  If the EU is backing him. His second term is almost a sure thing.

Should The World Health Organization And Related Orgs. Be Sued For Misleading The World About COVID?

The LID: Team Of Lawyers Suing WHO And Related Orgs. For Misleading World About COVID 

The WHO made pronouncements that protected China and blocked the world from the truth, leading to catastrophic consequences. 

Now they are being called on to pay the piper. 

A group of lawyers has gotten together and is taking a run at the World Health Organization’s leadership for the various ways they helped screw the world over. 

Along with WHO Director Tedros Adhanom, included as defendants in the suit are Dr. Christan Drosten, the head of virology at Berlin’s Charité Hospital, and Dr. Lothar Wieler, the head of the RKI, the German counterpart of the U.S. Center for Disease Control. lawyers 

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WNU Editor: As much as I like to see this lawsuit move forward against WHO, it is going to be stopped in its tracks. There is a provision that when a country joins the UN, it cannot sue its organizations.

WHO Official Says Don't Rely On U.S. Intelligence On The Suspected Origin Of The Covid-19 Coronavirus

Well now this👇. @JoeBiden has to look tough on China. Please don’t rely too much on US intel: increasingly disengaged under Trump & frankly wrong on many aspects. Happy to help WH w/ their quest to verify, but don’t forget it’s “TRUST” then “VERIFY”! https://t.co/ukaNAkDfEG

— Peter Daszak (@PeterDaszak) February 10, 2021

DW: WHO coronavirus mission member: 'Don't rely' on US virus intelligence 

The World Health Organization's mission in Wuhan ended without finding the source of the coronavirus, prompting criticism from Washington. 

But experts have found new lines of inquiry, including some proposed by China. 

A team member who was part of the World Health Organization's mission to China hit out at the United States on Wednesday after US officials had criticized the WHO's probe. 

Zoologist Peter Daszak was part of the special mission sent to the city of Wuhan to investigate the source of the coronavirus pandemic. 

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WNU Editor: The WHO official who is making this claim is Peter Daszak. Critics have pointed out that Peter Daszak should never have been included in the WHO team sent to China. The problem is that he is affiliated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and he would not be an impartial investigator .... WHO inspector has conflict of interest in Wuhan COVID probe: Prominent biologist (Taiwan News). More here .... WHO Covid Expert Peter Daszak's Alleged China Connection and CCP Money Trail: What's the Truth? (IBTimes). 

More News On The WHO Official Saying Don't Rely On U.S. Intelligence On The Suspected Origin Of The Covid-19 Coronavirus 

"Don't Rely Too Much" On US Virus Intelligence, Says WHO Mission Member -- AFP 

WHO team member attacks US over COVID-19 investigation claims -- NYPost 

Expert from WHO origins investigation warns against relying ‘too much on US intel’ on Covid-19 -- The Telegraph 

‘Frankly wrong’: WHO official derides US intelligence on COVID -- Al Jazeera 

  American on World Health Organization coronavirus investigation team dismisses US intelligence -- SCMP

World Health Organization Team In China Says COVID-19 Probably Came From Animals And Not From A Lab

 

ABC News (Australia): World Health Organization team in China says COVID-19 probably came from animals, but no evidence it originated in bats 

The World Health Organization team in the Chinese city of Wuhan says viruses similar to SARS-CoV-2 can be found in many animals, but they have been unable to find direct evidence of animal-human transmission. 

The team, along with Chinese experts and counterparts, held a press conference to announce the conclusion into their fact-finding mission into the origins of COVID-19 in the central Chinese city where the outbreak was discovered in late 2019. 

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WNU Editor: According to AP News, the WHO team visited the Wuhan lab and spoke with officials for three whole hours!!!!! And after this meeting, made their final conclusion that the pandemic could not have started from a lab leak. This has to be one of the fastest "investigation" and findings report of any global organization ever. 

 More News On The World Health Organization Saying COVID-19 Probably Came From Animals And Not From A Lab 

WHO team: Coronavirus unlikely to have leaked from China lab -- AP 

WHO whitewash: Investigators BACK Beijing's claim Covid did NOT leak from a Wuhan lab and call for 'no further study into that theory' - but they WILL probe China's claim virus was imported on frozen meat -- Daily Mail 

COVID may have taken 'convoluted path' to Wuhan, WHO team leader says -- Reuters

Identifying animal origin of coronavirus a ‘work in progress’, says WHO mission to Wuhan -- France 24 Covid origins still a mystery as WHO-China probe ends -- AFP 

Covid: WHO says 'extremely unlikely' virus leaked from lab in China -- BBC 

WHO investigators say COVID-19 almost certainly didn't come from lab -- UPI 

WHO team says theory Covid began in Wuhan lab ‘extremely unlikely’ -- The Guardian 

Coronavirus: WHO fails to find animal source of COVID-19 -- DW 

WHO mission to China fails to find source of coronavirus -- AFP

Recordings Reveal WHO's Analysis Of The Coronavirus Pandemic In Private Was Opposite What They Were Saying In Public

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, center, speaks during a news conference on updates regarding the coronavirus COVID-19, at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland on March 9, 2020 (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone FILE via AP) 

ABC News/AP: Recordings reveal WHO's analysis of pandemic in private 

As its annual meeting is underway this week, the World Health Organization is under intense pressure to reform 

GENEVA -- As the coronavirus explodes again, the World Health Organization finds itself both under intense pressure to reform and holding out hope that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will reverse a decision by Washington to leave the health agency. 

With its annual meeting underway this week, WHO has been sharply criticized for not taking a stronger and more vocal role in handling the pandemic. For example, in private internal meetings in the early days of the virus, top scientists described some countries' approaches as “an unfortunate laboratory to study the virus” and a “macabre” opportunity to see what worked, recordings obtained by The Associated Press show. Yet in public, the U.N. health agency lauded governments for their responses.

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WNU Editor: I posted a similar story a few months ago on how different the WHO message was to the rest of the world, and what they were saying in private. They were concerned that if they were forceful in their demands to have access in China, Beijing would have just "shut them out". Unfortunately. China did (and still is) shutting out their experts from visiting the epicenter of the disease in Wuhan.

Update: The establishment of a WHO-led inquiry on how they conducted themselves in responding to the pandemic has already been condemned by the U.S. for its lack of transparency .... U.S. denounces terms for WHO-led inquiry into COVID origins (Reuters). Unfortunately this U.S. reaction is all moot. Joe Biden has already made the commitment to rejoin the WHO and re-establish U.S. funding. Whatever leverage the U.S. may have had for the WHO to reform itself is now gone.