WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the COVID-19 pandemic reveals the need to overhaul the World Health Organization, warning that Washington may never ever restore WHO funding and might even work to establish an option to the U.N. body rather.
FILE PICTURE: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at a press briefing at the State Department in Washington, U.S., April 22,2020 Nicholas Kamm/Pool through REUTERS/File Picture
As Pompeo launched fresh attacks on the WHO, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives implicated the Trump administration of attempting to “scapegoat” the institution to distract from its own handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
In a letter to President Donald Trump, they called for the immediate restoration of U.S. funding, which Trump suspended recently after implicating the WHO of being “China-centric” and of promoting China’s “disinformation” about the outbreak.
Pompeo told Fox News late on Wednesday there required to be “a structural repair of the WHO” to remedy its “drawbacks.”
Asked if he was advising a modification in management of the WHO, Pompeo responded: “A lot more than that