The World Health Organization (WHO) agreed on Tuesday to start an “independent evaluation” of its response to the coronavirus pandemic, the AFP news agency reported.
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The 194 member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO), including the United States and China, adopted during their assembly a resolution that plans to initiate “as soon as possible an impartial, independent and complete evaluation” of the international action coordinated by the WHO in the face of the pandemic.
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Eel President Donald Trump accused the organization of being a “puppet of China”, before these statements, the Chinese government accused Trump of using China to “evade its obligations” before the WHO. “It is a miscalculation and the United States has chosen the wrong target,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian.
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Russia, which is close to 300,000 cases of contagion, criticized the United States for wanting to “break” the UN agency. “We oppose the bankruptcy (of the WHO) that would obey the political and geopolitical interests of a single state, that is, of the United States,” said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Riabkov.
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The European Union (EU) expressed its support for the WHO, stating that “it is time for solidarity, not to point the finger or undermine multilateral cooperation.”
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