Trump punishes the WHO and stops funding for it because of China .. Guterres is angry

Trump punishes the WHO and stops funding for it because of China .. Guterres is angry

Trump WHO :

On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump announced the suspension of the American financial contribution to the World Health Organization, saying that it had committed many "mistakes" in the emerging crisis of the outbreak of the "Corona Virus" virus, accusing it of "exaggerating its closeness to China." Trump pointed out that his country's contribution to financing the organization was between 400 and 500 million dollars annually; that is, approximately 15 percent of its budget, which makes it the largest contributor to its financing, compared to China’s contribution of about 40 million dollars “and even less”, saying that “from Duty "United States Accounting.

have been contained in the bud with very few deaths," Trump stressed. What China is right about. ” In response, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly criticized Trump's decision, saying that this is not a time to reckon and reduce the resources of such an international organization involved in the fight against a global pandemic, where he said in his statement, which was marked, unusually, in a sharp tone, that “when we will fold At the end of the page on this epidemic, there will be time to fully return to understand how this disease could have arisen and spread its destruction so quickly throughout the world. ” For its part, China urged the United States, on Wednesday, to fulfill its obligations to the world body. When asked by Zhao Legian, a spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, in a daily statement, whether Beijing would intervene to bridge the deficit, his response was not specific, saying: "China will discuss related issues according to the needs of the situation."