World Health Organization countries don’t invite Taiwan to annual assembly

Belize and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines spoke on behalf of a group of countries who brought a proposal to include Taiwan as an observer. China, which regards the democratically governed island of Taiwan as its territory, and Pakistan opposed the motion. The assembly accepted Taiwan’s exclusion and the United States, which plans to quit the WHO, left its seat empty. Between 2009 and 2016, Taiwan attended WHO assembly sessions as an observers under the administration of then-President Ma Ying-jeou, who signed landmark trade and tourism agreements with China.

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