{"id":160519,"date":"2020-05-11T12:02:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T11:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=160519"},"modified":"2020-05-11T10:30:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T09:30:49","slug":"us-blocks-un-global-ceasefire-resolution-objecting-reference-to-world-health-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/05\/us-blocks-un-global-ceasefire-resolution-objecting-reference-to-world-health-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"US Blocks UN Global Ceasefire Resolution Objecting Reference to World Health Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“It’s bad enough that Trump is responsible for so many deaths in his own country, now he is actively complicit in causing even more across the globe.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The U.S. blocked a U.N. global ceasefire resolution amid the global pandemic on Friday, objecting to language that even indirectly praised the World Health Organization. <\/strong>(Photo: via EuroYankee)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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9 May 2020 – <\/em>International diplomats were stunned and frustrated yesterday night after the U.S. again<\/a> blocked a United Nations resolution to call for a global ceasefire during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

The U.S. objected<\/a> to any mention of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the resolution. President Donald Trump has claimed<\/a> WHO withheld information from world governments about the coronavirus, and that the global health agency was privy to information about the virus originating in a lab in China.<\/p>\n

The president has offered no evidence<\/a> of the claims.<\/p>\n

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on governments around the world to enact ceasefires in conflicts, convincing armed factions in more than a dozen countries<\/a> to call for temporary truces as the world battles the pandemic.<\/p>\n

For six weeks the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Security Council has objected to references to WHO within the resolution, forcing French officials to lead an effort to reach a compromise.<\/p>\n

France was confident this week that the U.S. would agree to a resolution containing the phrase\u00a0“specialized health agencies,” appeasing both the U.S. and China, which has insisted on a reference to WHO.<\/p>\n

But on Friday, the U.S. announced it would not support the resolution and blocked the Security Council from holding a vote.<\/p>\n

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Not only did the US block a UN vote calling for a global ceasefire to help fight the pandemic because it mentioned the WHO, the US then also rejected a 2nd compromise resolution that simply mentioned "specialized health agencies.\u201dhttps:\/\/t.co\/4jHZyI1dHO<\/a><\/p>\n

— Alex Marquardt (@MarquardtA) May 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n