SPEAKING OUT: Canada and New Zealand for the first time gave their backing for Taiwan’s participation, while Germany, Honduras and Japan also spoke up
Taipei Times
Date: May 22, 2018
By: Lu Yi-hsuan / Staff reporter, in GENEVA, Switzerland, with CNA
Fifteen of Taiwan’s diplomatic allies have voiced support for its attendance at this year’s
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung, center, yesterday poses with demonstrators after he held a news conference on the sidelines of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. Photo: AFP
World Health Assembly (WHA) as an observer, the WHO said yesterday as it opened the first meeting of the 71st WHA in Geneva, Switzerland.
Proposals for a supplementary agenda item “inviting Taiwan to participate in the WHA as an observer” were received last month and earlier this month from Belize, Tuvalu, Nauru, eSwatini, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati, El Salvador, Saint Christopher and Nevis, Nicaragua, Paraguay, the Solomon Islands, Burkina Faso, Haiti, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Saint Lucia, the WHO said in a statement.
The proposal has been submitted to the WHA’s General Committee for review, it said.
If the assembly decides to discuss the proposal, it would issue documents related to it, the statement said. [FULL STORY]
