China affirmed that the US suspension of WHO funding is a fundamental violation of its membership obligations and deals a major blow to international cooperation in fighting the Corona virus and may lead to serious repercussions.
Xinhua quoted Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang as saying at a press conference yesterday that there is a legal obligation for WHO member states to pay their assessed contributions, adding that “Washington assumes that the World Health Organization must comply with its dictates as it is its largest shareholder as this is a model of the hegemonic mentality.” ”
Geng called on the United States not to choose the wrong direction from the path taken by the international community by suspending its funding for the World Health Organization, pointing out that Washington continues to defame the organization and attack it without any real basis, and that its method of pressure and coercion will only lead to further disapproval by the International community.
He said that we “at the present time and through our support for the organization, we will be able to contain the spread of the Corona virus more because this is a matter of life and death and this consensus shared by the majority of countries.
US President Donald Trump announced mid-this month that he had ordered his administration to suspend the payment of the United States’ financial contribution to the World Health Organization because of what he called the “mismanagement” of the United Nations in the emerging crisis of the Corona virus.
Source : Sana
