Ultimatum Trump

The US President demanded to prove his independence. No one in the world supported him

Donald Trump sent an ultimatum letter addressed to the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adanom Gebreisus. The 45th US President demands that it prove to prove that it is “independent of China” and has been reform within 30 days. Otherwise, the United States, the largest WHO sponsor, has already suspended its financing on April 14, will stop it on an ongoing basis and consider the issue of withdrawing from this organization created by the UN.

The American president published a four -page letter to the head of the WHO on Tuesday night, May 19, on his Twitter.

According to Trump, the World Health Organization has repeatedly made “inaccurate and misleading” statements of coronavirus. The organization did not conduct an independent investigation after the appearance of data that diverged from the official position of China.

Trump says that China praised China too quickly because the Chinese coped with the flash, and was silent for too long about medical workers who tried to raise the alarm. He also stated that WHO “free of charge” confirmed the statement of China that coronavirus could not be transmitted between people, which was contained in the statement of the WHO of January 14.

WHO needs immediate reforms, Trump believes: “We cannot waste time. I can’t allow the dollars of American taxpayers to continue to finance the organization, which in its current state does not serve the interests of America so clearly. ”

The letter was sent at the time of the 73rd session of the World Health Assembly in Geneva. Its participants, who worked in a video conference mode, adopted a resolution on an “impartial, independent and comprehensive” investigation of an international reaction to the pandemia of Covid-19.

The document does not mention China and there is no call to find out the origin of the virus. None of the 194 countries, members of the WHO, including the United States, expressed objections to the resolution. The document was made by the European Union with the support of more than 100 states, including Australia, China and Japan.

China approved the investigation, but only after the end of the pandemic. The head of the PRC Xi Jinping, in his speech at the opening ceremony of the Assembly, also promised to allocate two billion dollars for two years.

For comparison:

China’s annual contribution to WHO was about $ 40 million, while the United States allocated organizations to the current crisis of about $ 400 million.

The United States has already formed a debt of 200 million dollars after the suspension of financing.

Investigations of international efforts to combat the virus are required by most countries, there is a global consensus here. But only Trump directly accused WHO of covering China and demanded immediate reforms. And he remained alone.

WHO REITIONS OF THE REGIONALS OF THE US PROTE, and UN Secretary General Antoniu Gutherrish criticized "Weakening of WHO resources during the Pandemia." In WHO they confirmed that they received a letter and "consider its content."

“The greatest courage is to play in the team,” said Ursula von der Layen, chairman of the European Commission, speaking after the adoption of the resolution. “This does not mean that as soon as the dust settles and as soon as we fulfilled our promise to defeat this virus, we should not look for ways to modernize WHO to understand what we need to do so that the organization continues to live, responding with new challenges, we need multilateral approaches.”

Dr. David Nabarro, special support of the CEO of WHO in Covid-19, a British doctor with a long history of the fight against global viruses, including bird flu and Ebola fever, in an interview with CBS warned the organization during the pandemic.

As the virusologist noted, this is how fire engines are removed in the midst of a fire and ask them to go to planned service at a time when it is necessary to immediately extinguish the flame.

The WHO specialist in Covid-19 comments on Trump’s letter: “Suddenly, in the midst of a large-scale crisis, the organizations say that the main interested party (USA) thinks that they (in WHO) have spoiled everything, and therefore the main sponsor is going to pick up money.”

This decision resembles a virologist, affects 7.8 billion people. Trump's threats seem to be a “bad dream” for WHO employees. “They feel stunned. They work with the Americans and do a good job together. They cannot understand this, ”the British specialist said.

Responding to Trump’s criticism, Dr. Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the WHO program for emergency situations in the field of health, said: “We warned the world on January 5. Already on January 6, different countries began to take response. ” As for the transfer of the virus, Ryan said: “The respiratory pathogen always has a risk that he can be transmitted from person to person.”

The documents adopted by the Assembly indicate the principles of equal access to the results of “breakthrough research” of the coronavirus, as well as that immunization is recognized as “global public good”.

For his part, Washington did not block this measure. But he published a written statement about a special position on some issues, including the formulation of access to abortion and creating new mechanisms for uniting patents in response to the pandemic, saying that the United States will support only voluntary methods of exchange of intellectual property. The United States rejected the paragraphs of “equal access to drugs”, which the Trump administration considers as undermining patent protection for pharmaceuticals and “eliminating the key incentive” for innovation.

In America and in the world, Trump’s critics regarded attacks on WHO as an attempt to make a “scapegoat” from this organization and distract the public from criticism of its own actions to combat pandemia on the eve of the November elections.

In the United States, according to data collected by Jones Hopkins, more than one and a half million cases of Covid-19, which is almost a third of the total number in the world, is confirmed. As a result of the pandemic, the American economy in a corkscrew, tens of millions of jobs have been lost. Critics say that Trump did not take into account the early signs of an impending epidemic and that the reaction of its administration, in particular, an integrated approach to testing, is a key reason why the United States is also leading in mortality.

The Lancet medical magazine last week published an editorial article that calls for US voters to replace Trump and elect a leader who will expand the capabilities of centers for the control and prevention of diseases.

Despite the critical editorial article, Trump mentioned Lancet in his letter to the head of WHO: “The World Health Organization constantly ignored reliable reports of the spread of the virus in Jun in early December 2019 or even earlier, including messages from the Medical magazine The Lancet,” Trump writes.

In response to this, a statement has been published in the American journal, which states: “This statement is virtually wrong. In December 2019, The Lancet did not publish any report referring to the virus or flash in Juni or anywhere else in China. ” The magazine recalls that his first messages about Koronavirus were published on January 24.

WHO became another international organization in respect of which the 45th president expressed his distrust, the media noted.

Long before the outbreak of coronavirus, the president questioned the value of the American financing of the United Nations, abandoned the global climatic agreements, accused the World Trade Organization, claiming that other countries are “robbing the United States”. Criticism and threats were expressed even to NATO.

The presidential nuclear electorate was met by a constant approval: they say, it is not worth it to pay American taxpayers to pay foreign bureaucrats, America is above all and all.

The local media, referring to the sources in the administration, report that the White House is studying various tools for influencing the PRC, including sanctions, canceling debt obligations and developing a new trade policy, in order to “explain to China and the whole world”, that the Trump administration has responsible for the PRC for concealing the truth about pandemia.

The US President, appearing at public events, continues to ignore the wearing of masks and gloves and, with the permission of the doctor, takes an anti -malarial drug hydroxychlorokhin (aka - plaque) for the prevention of coronavirus, one tablet per day.

Daily testing for coronavirus infection so far give a negative result. Last month, the Office for the quality of food and medication warned Americans against the use of hydroxychlorochin outside hospitals due to side effects from the cardiovascular system. Several people in the United States died, deciding to be treated on their own at home.