FRIENDS:Twenty-one US senators signed a letter to the US secretary of health and human services to ‘express profound concern’ over Taiwan’s exclusion from the WHA
Taipei Times
Date: May 19, 2017
By: Shelley Shan / Staff reporter, with CNA
The government would definitely express its anger and frustration to the WHO about
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung yesterday speaks at a news conference at the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Taipei. Photo: CNA
not being invited to attend the annual World Health Assembly (WHA), Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said yesterday, adding that all protests would be conducted in a legal manner.
The WHA, the decisionmaking body of the WHO, is scheduled to meet in Geneva, Switzerland, from Monday to May 31.
The nation’s delegation, the “WHA Action Team,” is scheduled to depart for Geneva early tomorrow morning, Chen told a news conference in Taipei.
Chen is the designated leader of the team and is being accompanied by key officials from the Ministry of Health and Welfare. [FULL STORY]
