Trump threatens permanent cuts to WHO funds, demands 'substantive improvements'

Washington initially suspended payments over mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic. FMTNews DonaldTrump

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump threatened to permanently freeze US funding to the World Health Organization unless “substantive improvements” were made within the next 30 days.

On Monday, Trump tweeted images of a letter he sent to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, saying the letter was “self-explanatory”. “It is clear the repeated missteps by you and your organisation in responding to the pandemic have been extremely costly for the world. The only way forward for the World Health Organization is if it can actually demonstrate independence from China,” Trump said in the letter.

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