Taiwan ‘Disappointed’ and ‘Angry’ Over Exclusion from WHO’s Annual Meeting

Taiwan said it was “disappointed and angry” that the WHO has not allowed it to participate in the UN agency’s annual World Health Assembly.

Taiwan Health Minister Chen Shih-chung speaks to the Taipei Foreign Correspondents' Club about the CCP virus outbreak, at Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control in Taipei on May 6, 2020. Ben Blanchard/Reuters

Taiwan on May 19 said it was “disappointed and angry” that the World Health Organization (WHO) has not allowed it to participate in the U.N. agency’s annual World Health Assembly (WHA), which began virtually on Monday.

Non-WHO member Taiwan has lobbied to take part as an observer in this week’s virtual meeting of the WHA—the WHO’s decision-making body—to share the methods it used to combat the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus.