The World Health Assembly (WHA) will be held, but so far the World Health Organization (WHO) has not invited Taiwan to participate. The World Health Organization (WHO) has not yet invited Taiwan to participate in the World Health Organization (WHA).
The World Health Assembly will be held, and so far the World Health Organization still has not invited Taiwan to participate. The picture shows the venue of the WHO General Assembly, the Palais des Nations.
The 74th WHO General Assembly (WHA) will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, from May 24 to June 1 by video message. It is understood that the WHO sent notification letters to member states and observers in early April, but Taiwan has not been invited so far.
In response to whether to invite Taiwan to participate, WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said by e-mail on April 30 in response to a Central News Agency reporter that the issue of Taiwan’s observers in the WHO Conference is a matter for consideration and decision by the 194 WHO member states.
Jasarevic said that the WHO Assembly can invite observers through a resolution or decision adopted by a simple majority of the 194 member states.
He stressed that WHO is an intergovernmental organization with policies set by 194 member states. The WHO Secretariat works within the framework of the rules and policies set by the Member States.
The WHO emphasized that it is up to the member states to decide whether to invite Taiwan or not, indicating that the WHO will still turn Taiwan away this year. With more than 10 days to go before the deadline for online registration for the WHO, the government continues to work with all parties.
Taiwan has not been invited to participate in the WHO as an observer since 2017, when then-Secretary General Margaret Chan did not invite Taiwan in the last year of her term, and the WHO General Assembly was re-elected that year, with Secretary General Denise Tan taking the post.
And in May 2018, after Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus took office for the first time, WHO refused to invite Taiwan on the grounds that “if the two sides of the Taiwan Strait again reached an understanding on participation in the WHO,” it would help Taiwan to participate.
In 2019, the WHO further said that if there is no “cross-strait understanding” (cross-strait understanding), there is no need to expect Taiwan to obtain a ticket to the WHO.
The WHO has refused to invite Taiwan for several years because of the Chinese Communist Party, and the 2020 pandemic has led to international questions about the WHO’s bias in favor of the Chinese Communist Party in response to the epidemic, and the rising tide of criticism, coupled with the fact that many countries have praised Taiwan’s outstanding performance in epidemic prevention, the WHO has changed its previous cross-strait rhetoric and instead said that it was because of a lack of political consensus among member states that Tandezai was not authorized to issue a letter of invitation to Taiwan for the WHO.
But at the time, the U.S. refuted the WHO, stating that Tan Desai had the authority to invite Taiwan to participate in the WHO Assembly as an observer, and that Taiwan was invited to participate in the WHO Assembly as an observer during Margaret Chan’s tenure from 2009 to 2016.
After being refuted by the U.S., this year’s WHO statement further cut Tan Desai’s power role and responsibility to invite Taiwan to participate, directing Taiwan’s participation in the WHO Conference to be a matter for Member States to decide.
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