ANC Women's Federation: Opposes the politicization of the traceability of the new crown virus

(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) The ANC: Oppose the politicization of the source of the new coronavirus

　　China News Agency, Johannesburg, August 17 (Reporter Wang Xi) On August 16, local time in South Africa, the ANC Women’s Union (ANC Women’s Federation), an organization affiliated with the ANC, the ruling party in South Africa, issued a statement against the politics of tracing the source of the new crown virus. change.

　　The statement pointed out that the ANC welcomes China to take the lead in launching traceability cooperation with WHO, and recognizes the conclusions of the WHO-China New Coronavirus Traceability Joint Research Report in March 2021, including the extremely unlikely laboratory leakage and no discovery in December 2019 There was a large-scale spread of the epidemic in Wuhan, and we should continue to look for possible early cases in a wider area around the world.

The African National Women’s Federation appreciates China’s open, transparent, and responsible attitude and positive contributions.

　　The African National University Women’s Federation believes that traceability is a scientific issue and supports the international community to strengthen unity, jointly promote virus traceability cooperation, and jointly respond to virus challenges.

Countries should carry out more in-depth and detailed scientific research and cooperation on a wider scale in accordance with the requirements of the relevant resolutions of the World Health Assembly, in the spirit of scientific cooperation, and in accordance with the conclusions and recommendations of the WHO-China New Coronavirus Traceability Joint Research Report.

　　The African National Women’s Federation firmly opposes the politicization of the traceability issue, and resolutely opposes improper practices such as geotagging and stigmatizing the virus under the pretext of the epidemic.

Individual countries use virus traceability as a tool to politically attack other countries, especially China. It completely violates the spirit of science and can only hinder global traceability cooperation, undermine global unity in the fight against the epidemic, and create and exacerbate estrangement.

　　The ANC Women’s Federation supports global anti-epidemic cooperation and calls on the international community to uphold the principles of science, objectivity, and fairness, maintain the scientific and rigorous nature of virus traceability research, and oppose the politicization of virus traceability issues.

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