International Group of Lawmakers Call for Taiwan to Be Included at WHO Meeting

Epoch Times
Date: November 3, 2020
By: Frank Fang

Students wearing face masks as a preventive measure to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus run during a sports class at Dajia Elementary School in Taipei on April 29, 2020. (Photo by Sam Yeh / AFP) (Photo by SAM YEH/AFP via Getty Images)

A global coalition of lawmakers is calling on the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) to allow Taiwan to participate in the upcoming World Health Assembly (WHA) and the health body’s meetings and activities. The assembly is the WHO’s decision-making body.

“The international community needs the world-leading expertise Taiwan has developed to control the virus,” said the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) in a Nov. 2 statement.

The group added: “Taiwan has unique contributions to offer in the advanced production of critical medical supplies, application of strenuous contact tracing, and the use of big data and digital technology.”

“We urge the WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, to consider his own words when he said that ‘No one is safe until everyone is safe,’” according to the statement.
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