US EditionArgentina to withdraw from World Health Organization after Trump exit, citing 'deep differences'
- President Javier Milei has ordered Argentina's withdrawal from the World Health Organization due to profound differences with the U.N. agency, a presidential spokesperson said Wednesday.
- The decision reflects Argentina's concerns about the WHO's health management during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to spokesperson Manuel Adorni.
- Adorni stated that WHO guidelines led to the largest shutdown in the history of mankind and criticized the agency's lack of independence.
- Argentina will not allow an international organization to intervene in its sovereignty, particularly regarding health matters, as emphasized by Adorni.
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Two weeks after President Donald Trump announced that he will seek to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO), his Argentine counterpart Javier Milei retorted for his country this decision, with similar arguments. “The organization’s mismanagement in the face of the covid-19 pandemic and other global health crises, its inability to adopt urgently needed reforms and its inability to demonstrate independence,” were the …
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Buenos Aires, Argentina.- On Wednesday, Argentina announced, after the United States did so, that it will withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO), in an echo of Trump's repeated complaints about what it described as mishandling by that body of the Covid-19 pandemic. Andrea Oelsner, director of the career in Political Science and International Relations at the University of San Andrés, Buenos Aires, called the departure of Argentina fro…
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Argentina’s far-right populist President Javier Milei says he is withdrawing Argentina from the World Health Organization, following in the footsteps of Donald Trump. Like Trump, Milei cited the U.N. agency’s response to the COVID pandemic, namely its backing of lifesaving lockdowns. Last month, Milei gave a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos blasting feminism, LGBTQ communities, the fight against climate change, social welfare and so-c…
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