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The president of United States, Donald trump, and its French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, agreed this Sunday on the need to reform the World Health Organization (WHO), during a telephone conversation, the White House reported in a statement.
During the call, “they spoke about the positive progress in the fight against the pandemic of coronavirus and progress towards the reopening of world economies. The two leaders expressed their hope that P5 (the five permanent members of the Security Council) will meet and analyze the UN’s response to the pandemic, “reads the note.
Both “agreed on the need to reform the World Health Organization,” said the text, adding that they also discussed “critical regional and bilateral issues.”
In the middle of this month, Trump ordered freeze funds with which the USA it contributed to WHO funding, after complaining about the organization’s management of the coronavirus crisis.
The US president justified his decision by the WHO’s opposition to the closure of borders to combat the spread of the virus, for not having acted before and for having not only trusted, but also “praised” the Chinese government.
France regretted that decision and reiterated his commitment, and “especially that of the President of the Republic”, with multilateralism, said the spokesperson for the French Council of Ministers, Sibeth Ndiaye.
Days later, during a virtual meeting of the leaders of the G7, organized under the presidency of Trump, Macron himself defended the role of the WHO and stressed “the central role it must have in relation to all states, international institutions and programs dedicated to the vaccine, to the health and strengthening health systems ”, according to Elíseo.
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