Following the United States, Argentina will also leave the World Health Organization (WHO). A spokesperson for the radical-right President Javier Milei announced this on Wednesday during a press conference in the capital Buenos Aires.
According to the Argentinian newspaper Clarín lashed The government of Milei through the spokesperson for fierce criticism of the WHO policy during the Coronapandemie. According to the current government, that policy, together with the decisions of Milei’s predecessor, President Alberto Fernández, led to the “biggest imprisonment since time immemorial.”
The Argentines will no longer allow an international organization to affect their sovereignty, according to the spokesperson. According to the Milei government, the departure from the WHO ensures that Argentina gets greater freedom to determine its own health policy. The WHO has no power over the policy of its members and only makes recommendations, writes the Annenberg Public Policy Center in one factcheck.
Natural ally
According to Clarín Milei does not need permission from the Parliament to withdraw Argentina from the WHO. A cancellation period of one year applies to the WHO.
Milei sees herself as a natural ally of US President Donald Trump, who announced shortly after he took office that the United States would leave the World Health Organization. Also with other international treaties, such as the Paris Agreement, the Argentinian government is considering following and leaving the example of the US.
The US is the largest financier of the WHO: the country delivers around 18 percent of the budget. During the Coronapandemie, Trump and the organization were regularly upset. For example, Trump claimed that the WHO China would have helped “mislead the world” about the origin of the Coronavirus.
The American president was also fiercely against the measures that the WHO advised during the pandemic, such as wearing mouth caps in public. Trump alleged Burgers perhaps could make it sprayed in their lungs better.
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