US President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw his country's membership permanently from the World Health Organization and cut its funding unless the organization is committed within 30 days to making substantial substantive improvements, while the United Nations has pledged to conduct an independent investigation into the management of the Corona virus crisis.
Trump published in his tweet the message that includes the threat to withdraw his country's membership, and addressed it to the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanum Gebresus, and in his letter renewed his accusation of failing and submitting to China over the spread of the Corona pandemic.
In the letter, the US President listed examples of what he considered to be mistakes the organization committed in managing the Corona virus crisis, especially its disregard for the initial reports of the virus's emergence, its close proximity and its strong tolerance of China.
This is the letter sent to Dr. Tedros of the World Health Organization. It is self-explanatory! pic.twitter.com/pF2kzPUpDv
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 19, 2020
"Obviously, repeated wrong steps on your part, and by your organization, to respond to the pandemic, have cost the world dearly. The only way the WHO should take is to be able to prove its independence from China," Trump added.
In mid-April, the Trump administration froze America's financial contribution to the organization’s budget, accusing it of bias towards China and of covering up the seriousness of the Corona virus and of mismanaging the crisis it caused.
Independent investigation
of his part, the Director General of the World Health Organization pledged on Monday to launch an independent investigation into the global response and the Organization 's response to the spread of Corona virus emerging, he said in response to Washington 's accusations that the Health Organization quickly warned of the dangers of the virus.
Gebrissos said that the organization's Independent Oversight Advisory Committee published its first report on the pandemic, and the report contained several recommendations for the Secretariat and Member States.
The same official welcomed the decision of the WHO Assembly calling for a neutral and independent evaluation process to respond to the Corona crisis.
Requested by China and
61 countries in the organization called on China to investigate the emergence of the Corona virus, and those countries expressed at a meeting of the World Health Organization, the organization's decision-making body, deep concern about the size of deaths and injuries caused by the virus outbreak, and its damage to public health, economy and society .
On the other hand, Chinese President Xi Jinping said yesterday at the opening of the annual conference of the World Health Organization that his country has acted openly and transparently in the war against the new Corona, and it supports the idea of a comprehensive review of the global response to this virus "to extract experiences and address shortcomings."