President Donald Trump speaks through a news meeting in the Rose Backyard garden of the White Household, Friday, May perhaps 29, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
President Donald Trump announced on Friday that the United States will terminate its relationship with the Environment Health and fitness Firm, a move he has threatened throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
“Because they have failed to make the requested and enormously wanted reforms, we will be right now terminating our connection with the Globe Overall health Group and redirecting all those cash to other throughout the world and deserving, urgent international community well being desires,” Trump stated.
The President said that the “world demands solutions from China on the virus. We have to have transparency.”
Previously in his remarks, he mentioned that China had not thoroughly claimed information and facts it had about the coronavirus to the Earth Wellness Corporation and explained China had pressured the WHO to “mislead the world.”
“Chinese officers ignored their reporting obligations to the Environment Wellbeing Organization and pressured the Earth Health and fitness Organization to mislead the world when the virus was very first learned by Chinese authorities,” Trump stated. “Countless life have been taken and profound economic hardship has been inflicted all all over the globe.”
The President had beforehand introduced a short-term halt of funding to the WHO and sent a letter to the agency previously in May saying that the US would completely pull funding if the WHO did not “commit to significant substantive improvements in the up coming 30 days.”
