US EditionDeparting US Still Owes Money, Says WHO Chief
The WHO says the U.S. exit still depends on paying arrears, with officials citing about $260 million owed for 2024 and 2025.
- WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday that the United States has failed to pay membership arrears, with Washington's withdrawal conditional on settling around $260 million in outstanding dues.
- President Donald Trump issued a one-year withdrawal notice in January 2025, but the United States still owes dues for 2024 and 2025 under a 1948 constitutional requirement to pay financial obligations in full.
- U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attacked the WHO in January, claiming it had "tarnished and trashed everything that America has done for it." Despite tensions, Kennedy maintains regular contact with Tedros.
- Tedros warned that withdrawal compromises global health security, stating "Where there is a vacuum, the virus wins," and emphasized the U.S. withdrawal makes itself and the world less safe without universal cooperation.
- The WHO's annual assembly of member states will decide on the U.S. withdrawal when it meets from May 18–23 in Geneva, as the organization's constitution lacks a formal withdrawal clause requiring assembly approval.
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The Director General of the World Health Organization recalls that payment of debts is a sine qua non for validating the American withdrawal from the United Nations agency.
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that the United States had still not paid its contributions, a condition necessary for them to be able to withdraw from the United Nations agency.
The United States has still not paid its arrears on membership fees to the World Health Organization, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday. Washington's intention to leave is conditional on their payment, TASR reports, citing an AFP report. Tedros expressed hope that the United States would pay the money owed - which is its voluntary condition for leaving the organization, which it set itself when it joined. US President Donald…
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday that the United States has to pay its debts to the United Nations agency before leaving it. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO, said yesterday at a press conference that the exit of the United States from the agency is subject to a notification one year in advance, a condition that has been fulfilled, but also "to the payment of late values".
WHO Chief Says US Still Owes Membership Fees
The United States has still not paid its membership fee arrears at the World Health Organisation, the WHO chief said on Wednesday, even though settling its debt is a condition for completing its withdrawal from the agency. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he hoped the United States would pay the money it owes. “In terms of the arrears from the US, the US withdrawal is conditioned with two things,” Tedros told a press conferen…
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