The United States has completed its exit from the World Health Organization, the Trump administration said, one year since it began the withdrawal process.
Jan. 23 The United States has completed its exit from the World Health Organization, the Trump administration said, one year since it began the withdrawal process.
„Like many international organizations, the WHO abandoned its core mission and acted repeatedly against the interests of the United States“, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a joint statement on Thursday.
„Although the United States was a founding member and the WHO’s largest financial contributor, the organization pursued a politicized, bureaucratic agenda driven by nations hostile to American interests.“
Trump initiated the process to withdraw the United States from the United Nations‘ intergovernmental health body on the first day of his second term in office via executive order.
Under U.S. law, the United States could withdraw from the WHO after a one-year notice. It also requires the United States, the WHO’s largest financial contributor, to fulfill its financial obligations to the organization for the fiscal year in which the notice was given.
Rubio and Kennedy said the WHO has refused to return the American flag that hung outside its headquarters, asserting that the organization has not approved the United States‘ withdrawal due to outstanding payments.
