President Donald Trump 'terminates' relationship with World Health Organisation
Donald Trump has announced that the US will be "terminating its relationship" with the World Health Organisation.
Speaking in the Rose Garden at the White House, the US president said he wants to redirect funds into other organisations, as part of an anti-China address.
He announced he would issue a proclamation that would secure research at US universities - a move which will mean the US relies on its own science, rather than that of the global health body.
Mr Trump has spent weeks taking aim at the WHO, accusing them of not acting fast enough on the coronavirus outbreak.
The president claimed in his speech on Friday that China had "total control" over the organisation, and that the country pressured the WHO to mislead the world during the initial outbreak of COVID-19.
The US is the biggest single contributor to the World Health
Organisation, paying in around $450m (£360m), with Mr Trump saying that
China only contributed around $40m (£32m).
President Trump's move is expected to significantly weaken the organisation while it is in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Speaking in the Rose Garden at the White House, the US president said he wants to redirect funds into other organisations, as part of an anti-China address.
He announced he would issue a proclamation that would secure research at US universities - a move which will mean the US relies on its own science, rather than that of the global health body.
Mr Trump has spent weeks taking aim at the WHO, accusing them of not acting fast enough on the coronavirus outbreak.
The president claimed in his speech on Friday that China had "total control" over the organisation, and that the country pressured the WHO to mislead the world during the initial outbreak of COVID-19.
President Trump's move is expected to significantly weaken the organisation while it is in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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