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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (Image: Reuters)
In the interview with Fox News On April 29, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo continued to criticize WHO, saying that the organization “did not fulfill its mission.”
“We knew that the leader of the organization (WHO) came to China and then refused to declare (Covid-19) a pandemic until everyone in the world knew it was true. Pompeo said, but did not reveal details of the visit of the WHO Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, to China.
At a press conference on March 11, the WHO Director-General declared Covid-19 a “pandemic” after “deep concern over the alarm about the spread, severity and alarming level.” about the indifference of many parts.
This is the first time that the WHO has considered Covid-19 a pandemic since the virus outbreak in Wuhan, China since late last year. Before that, the WHO only raised the alert level to the highest.
The WHO Director-General once criticized President Trump when he imposed a ban on flights from China to the United States on January 31. At the time, Mr. Tedros said the ban would create “fear, discrimination and would not bring many benefits to public health.”
President Trump said the United States was fortunate at first to reject WHO recommendations to remain open to China.
“Unfortunately, this is not the first time that a virus has traveled from within China around the world, nor is it the first time that WHO has failed in its mission,” added the US Secretary of State. .
“For the American people, we are obligated to do our best to make sure that we will solve this problem, to prevent those things from happening again,” Pompeo stressed.
The United States Secretary of State has repeatedly asked China to be more transparent on the subject of the Covid-19 epidemic. Pompeo did not rule out the possibility of a new strain of the coronavirus from a laboratory in Wuhan City and urged China to allow inspectors access to the country’s laboratories.
President Donald Trump’s administration in April announced that it would stop funding the WHO, after accusing it of mismanagement, covering up information about Covid-19, and delaying its response to the epidemic and Chinese bias. Quoc.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said last week that the United States would comprehensively review WHO’s operations and could cut permanent funding for WHO. Canada also stated that it wants an investigation to be conducted to consider WHO’s response to a global pandemic.
WHO officials have denied the United States’ allegations and hope that the United States will resume funding. The United States is the largest WHO donor with grants of up to $ 400 million per year, while China contributes about $ 40 million per year.
The Trump administration’s decision to cut WHO funding has faced criticism when many people think this is a “dangerous” action in the context of the world in the midst of a pandemic.
According to Johns Hopkins University statistics, the Covid-19 epidemic caused at least 233,000 deaths and more than 3.2 million infections worldwide. The United States remains the world’s largest outbreak, with more than 1 million cases and at least 63,000 deaths.
Thanh Dat
According to New York Post
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