Lavrov urged to concentrate on the fight against the pandemic

The international community should focus on fighting the coronavirus, and not on the situation around the suspension of US contributions to the budget of the world health organization (who). On Saturday said the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov in an interview with "Big game", a fragment of which was shown in the First channel.

"America is a major payer in the budget of the who, so if you take relative numbers among the professionals who determine the activities of the who Secretariat – the majority of Americans, including in leadership positions, and I strongly doubt that these Americans are working in complete isolation from their government, Lavrov said. – But never a member of the Secretariat, who would be a citizen, he was neither, refuses contacts with the delegations of member countries, if they have any questions".

"So I would now still instead of yelling "stop him!" looking for the guilty, I would still have focused, first, on the necessary measures for the development of vaccines, in parallel with measures of isolation, quarantine, and so forth", – said the head of the Russian foreign Ministry.

14 APR trump said that Washington has suspended contributions to the who. According to him, the money will not be transferred "to assess the organization’s role in the concealment of data on spread of coronavirus".