"There is no time to lose. The only concern of the World Health Organization is to help all people to save lives and put an end to the outbreak of the Corona virus (Covid-19)," WHO director Tidros Adhanom Gebresos said on his Twitter account Wednesday.
Gypressus’s statement came after US President Donald Trump announced the suspension of US funding for the World Health Organization.
The US President directed a lengthy indictment to the International Organization, saying that “the world has received a lot of misinformation about transmission and deaths caused by the Covid-19 epidemic.”
Trump added that Was available One eighth White House Gardens , " the commander of the suspension of the World Health Organization funding during a review to assess the role of the World Health Organization in severe ill - management and hide the corona virus outbreak emerging."
Said Trump to "very in- depth" study can last between sixty and ninety days.
The United States is the largest contributor to the financing of the World Health Organization, which has been based since Geneva.
The US President pointed out that his country's contribution to financing the organization was between 400 and 500 million dollars annually, compared to China's contribution of about 40 million dollars "and even less."
On Wednesday, Beijing confirmed that it paid $ 20 million to the World Health Organization, referring to a donation made by China to the organization in March.
- United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly criticized Trump's decision, saying that "this is not the time to reduce the resources" of an international organization like this involved in the fight against the Covid-19 epidemic.
In his statement, which was marked, unusually, in a sharp tone, he made it clear that after the end of the crisis "there will be time" to understand how the disease arose and spread.
On April 8, Guterres defended the organization after Trump directed her with a barrage of criticism.
China, for its part, expressed "grave concern" over the decision. "This decision will weaken the capabilities of the World Health Organization and undermine international cooperation against the epidemic," said a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Legian.