Wednesday, 17 February 2021 (YJC)_ Secretary of State announced The United States will send a payment worth over $200 million to the WHO.
The United States will send a payment worth over $200 million to the WHO by the end of February, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Wednesday.
"This is a key step forward in fulfilling our financial obligations as a WHO member and it reflects our renewed commitment to ensuring the WHO has the support it needs to lead the global response to the pandemic," Blinken said, speaking at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday.
"The US believes that multilateralism, the UN, the WHO are essential, not just as an effective international Covid-19 health and humanitarian response, but also to building stronger global health capacity and security for the future," Blinken said.
The Biden administration moved to rejoin the WHO in January, doing as the president signed a spree of executive orders to reverse dozens of policy decisions made by his predecessor.
Donald Trump cut funding to the UN agency and began the process of withdrawal from the organization after accusing it of being "China-centred" and of siding with Beijing in misreporting the facts about the coronavirus pandemic, and of "buying" its director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. China, the European Union, Russia, Iran and others slammed the US decision.
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