The US President Donald trump said that Washington stops financing the world health organization (who).
"I stop the financing of the world health organization, while they investigate the error in the response and the concealment of the spread of coronavirus" – he told reporters Wednesday.
Approval of trump, who did not provide information in a timely manner and not brought the truth to the attention of the world community.
"who have not coped with the implementation of this principal and should be held to account. It’s time after all the decades," said trump.
The White house accused the organization that she did not investigate credible information of Wuhan, contrary to official information the Chinese authorities. "there were credible information about the possibility of transmission from person to person in December 2019, which should encourage the who to investigate and to do it immediately," he said.
According to trump that as a result of inactivity of the organization, much time was lost. If China were sent to who experts to assess the situation, the outbreak of the virus, a large number of victims and economic consequences could have been avoided, I’m sure the President of the United States. In addition, the organization insisted that it was not necessary to suspend air traffic.
"America and the world decided to trust the who for providing accurate and timely information to make important recommendations and decisions on health. If we can’t trust this, and that’s what we have from who, our country will be forced to find other options of working with other countries to reach the goals in health care. We have no other choice," said trump.
"We will continue contacts with who to see whether they can undertake substantial reforms," he added.
Earlier, the us leader has repeatedly criticized the who for what she supposedly "was too focused on China", although it gets the lion’s share of funding from the United States. In the end, he promised to review the funding of the who.
The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov, commenting on the trump urged to refrain from attempts to politicize the topic of coronavirus and actions of the world health organization.
As the Minister said, who continues to play "an important coordinating role in helping to fight the pandemic," which is reflected in a consensus resolution of the UN General Assembly and the final Declaration of the emergency summit "of the group of twenty".
World health organization March 11 announced the outbreak of a new coronavirus infection COVID-19 pandemic. According to the latest who data, there have been recorded more than 1.8 million cases, more than 113 thousand people died.
Recent data on the situation of COVID-19 in Russia and the world presented on the portal stopmanager.of the Russian Federation.
