US President Donald Trump Image: SIPA USA/PA Images US President Donald Trump Image: SIPA USA/PA Images US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump has formally started the withdrawal of the United States from the World Health Organization.
The withdrawal is effective in one year – 6 July 2021 – and Joe Biden, Trump’s presumptive Democratic opponent, is virtually certain to stop it and stay in the WHO if he wins the November election. In line with conditions set when the WHO was set up in 1948, the United States can leave within one year but must meet its remaining assessed financial obligations, the UN spokesman said.In late May, Trump said that China exerted “total control” over the WHO and accused the UN body led by Tedros, an Ethiopian doctor and diplomat, of failing to implement reforms.
“To call Trump’s response to Covid chaotic and incoherent doesn’t do it justice,” said Senator Robert Menendez, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee. Representative Ami Bera, himself a physician, said that the United States and World Health Organization had worked “hand in hand” to eradicate smallpox and nearly defeat polio.
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