U.S President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to begin the process of withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization (WHO)
The move, which was widely anticipated, will see the U.S. leave the global health body within a year from the official notification to the United Nations and the WHO.
Trump signed an executive order Monday night withdrawing the country from the World Health Organisation.
Trump also directed the two officials to “recall and reassign” U.S. government personnel or contractors working with the WHO and find “credible and transparent” U.S. and international partners to replace the “necessary activities previously undertaken by the WHO.”
Some have called one of the US president’s first executive orders “a grave error” and “absolutely bad news”.
The executive order also demands the secretary of State to cease negotiations on the pandemic agreement that WHO member countries have been negotiating for years, with…
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