LEGISLATION: The US senators’ joint proposal would allow the US to advocate for Taiwan’s formal inclusion in the World Health Assembly to address international public health issues

Yaipei Times
Date: Apr 21, 2018
By: Staff writer, with CNA, Washington

Two US senators on Thursday introduced legislation urging the US secretary of state to devise a strategy to help Taiwan regain observer status in the WHO.

US senators James Inhofe and Robert Menendez, cochairs of the Senate Taiwan Caucus, made the request prior to the WHO’s annual World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva, Switzerland, next month.

The legislation is cosponsored by US senators John Cornyn and Marco Rubio.

In a joint statement, Inhofe said that China has been the roadblock to Taiwan’s participation in the WHA since President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) took office in May 2016.
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