Newly-inaugurated President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Monday withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO) and halting U.S. funding to the United Nations body.
The order cited the WHO’s “mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, and other global health crises” as reasons behind the U.S. withdrawal.
It also stated that the WHO failed to “adopt urgently needed reforms” and was unable to demonstrate independence from “the inappropriate political influence” of member states.
The order noted “unfairly onerous payments” by the United States to support the international organization, saying that these contributions were “far out of proportion with other countries’ assessed payments.”...
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