Historian survey. Visit our website and order your copy today wherever books are sold. Remarks from secretary of state from the World Health Organization. This is about 25 minutes. Secretary secretary good morning everyone. We remember of those killed scrilanchinga. This is the 75th anniversary year of the liberation of nazi concentration camps that were murdered including six million jews. And repugnant acts of evil will never happen again. Third and in light of the secretary germs message to turn our recovery to do the right thing, i want to remind everyone that the right to achieve a greener, cleaner Brighter Future is to unleash free market competition. Its what we have done here in the United States and continue to be a model and we are a world leader. One simple data point from 2005 to 2018, recently we have data. U. S. Emissions decreased by 10 as our economy grew by 25 . China has been the largest annual emitter since 2006 and expects its initiatives will continue to grow until 200 and offsetting the progress of countries around the world. I would urge that we have the data and facts right who are delivering on the things we all value and earth day, the 50th anniversary, thats especially important. Turning to the World Health Organization. I want to spend a few minutes telling the American People more about the problems we are trying to work our way through it. The w. H. O. Is a regulator and an advisory role and a Health Emergency and humanitarian aid operation on top of that. After the first sars outbreak in 2003, the United States led the reform of the w. H. O. To govern on how they report on Public Health threats. Major reform effort in 2003. Those rules are called International Health regulations went into effect in 2007 and sent clear expectations for how every country must disclose data to protect global health. Article 6 of the article said it shall notify the World Health Organization of all events which macon statute a public Health Emergency of International Concern within its territory. And two of those same rules that countries must notify the World Health Organization of any unusual or Public Health events such as sars or anything that causes covid19. Those rules say how countries when to notify the w. H. O. We strongly believe that the Chinese Communist party did not report the outbreak in a timely fashion to the World Health Organization. Article 2 of the i. H. R. s which was part of this reform mandates that a state party, includes china, shall continue to commune cailt to w. H. O. Accurate Public Health information, there is an ongoing obligation even after the c. C. P. Did notify the w. H. O. And it didnt share all the information it had. It covered up how dangerous the disease is, it didnt report the same humantohuman until it was in every province and sensored those who tried to warn the world to halt the testing of new samples and destroyed existing samples. They have not shared the virus samples with the outside world making it impossible to track the diseases evolution. Making a legal determination today, im adherence to the i. H. R. s the regulatory arm failed during this pandemic. I also note when countries adopted these new rules in twemp, we also gave the director germ of the World Health Organization encouragement to go public when a member wasnt following those rules and that didnt happen in this case either. We continue to insist, this is an ongoing requirement tore transparency and openness according to the rules and w. H. O. Has the responsibility to continue to enforce them today and getting it right and critical to save lives today and in the future. Ill talk about humanitarian aid. United states is the most generation nation on the planet, has been for the past three years and will continue to be this year. Thanks to the american taxpayers and dedicated 140 billion in global funding. Today, i can confirm the United States is making an additional commitment of 270 million to fight the virus bringing it 775 million to date. And we help our partners by sharing expertise today today, the c. D. C. Has officers stationed in 5 countries. Thousandses of doctors whose knowledge is incredibly valuable and helps to save lives but this is a Global Pandemic and affects us right here in america as well. Weeks before the first reported in guatemala, u. S. Aid was caring for its first patients and the ited states has doctors in indonesia. American again rossity isnt limited to our systems but comes directly from the United States government, our businesses and n. G. O. s, faith groups and all of america approach to save lives across the world and protecting us here at home. We estimate that the American People have given nearly 3 billion in assistance just to fight this particular virus. Americas commitment is as steady as ever. Move on to a couple of final points. I want to highlight two ways in which the Chinese Communist party is continuing its provocative behavior. We are commenting on what is taking place in hong kong to erode Law Enforcement authorities and arrest prodemocracy and including an 818yearold lee. China has to live up to its promises and its obligations to live up to the rules that it put in place and it signed off on. We would ask them to continue to do it here. And seen the chinese communityist party is coercing its neighbors in the south china ea and going so far as to have to sink a vietnamese fishing velf. We oppose chinas bullying. Tonight i will be on a phone all between my counterparts. I want to note, too, we are well along in developing the implemented policies required by the law in the ndaa of 2019 prohibiting use of untrusted vendors in u. S. Facilities. These are coming to u. S. Facilities will have to follow a clean path and reside in transit only through trusted systems and will provide full details on that before too long. On vends waila, as i have commented from this podium, we are putting pressure on the maduro regime seeking to provide humanitarian assistance to the people of venezuela. The general license which allowed Certain Companies to maintain operations in venezuela expires today. The pressure ki department announced a narrow license for seven months which will allow Companies Operating there to begin their winddown process. Indiscernible] secretary secretary second question. I will lead it to the Vice President s task force. We have seen china provide those resources. Sometimes they are from u. S. Resources. And Vice President has talked about the air bridge and delivered products from china. We appreciate that. We are counting on china to live up to its contractual obligations and International Obligation to provide that assistance to us and these are commercial transactions in a way consistent with all of the International Trade rules. Iran, you noted the launch last night. We said the missile programs were disconnected from the program and purely commercial enterprises. Todays launch has proved what we have been saying. Irgc launched a missile today. And lile let it to the department of defense to talk about the details. But about u. N. Security Council Resolution has an obligation to go to the United Nations and whether this Missile Launch was consistent with that. I dont think it remotely is and iran needs to be accountable for what they have done. They have a military organization that the United States has designated as a terrorist, an attempt to launch a satellite. You talked about the naval ships, you saw the president s statements. The president has been clear to the department of dens and frankly to the state department team, too, to do everything we make and do everything to protect our officers and diplomats to ensure they are secure and safe. He has told of us in leadership and take whatever action is necessary to make sure you can depped and keep our people safe. Im confident that the department of defense will do that in response to what the president said as well. And he talked more broadly about deterrence. Two thoughts. The Iranian Regime has spread disinformation in response to this virus. One of the things they said, we need resources in order to take care fert of of the virus at home and they are launching satellites and driving ships around the arabian gulf and harassing ships. Yesterday, my iranian ounterpart was in syria. I hope that the Iranian Regime will respond to the iranians peoples demands to prioritize resources, resources that they have to the health, security of the iranian people rather than continuing their global terror campaign. They still have resources. You should note. Very first news that the covid virus hit iran, we offered humanitarian assistance to the people of iran. The offer still stands. We have given humanitarian assistance to them. I wish they would care about their people as well as the rest of the world as it has demonstrated it does. Reporter we are hearing there is [indiscernible] do you have any reading and what kim jong un. Broader question on china, how would you say that the chinese behavior of disinformation that you are talking about, what do you think that has on the longterm relationship with the United States. Do you think it will damage it significantly . I dont have anything to add. E are watching closely thats our expectation for every country. What i think you were referring to, you called it disinformation speaking to transfer responsibility or to deny access to the world so the world can forget whats going on, you have to remember, these labs are ill open that have complex patho gens, multiple labs that are happened willing these things. It is important they are being handled in a safe and secure way. We have an elaborate regime in the United States to do that and many countries do it as well. We have lots of regimes i give you an example in the nuclear context, the world inspects sites to ensure there is proper handling. The United States trained others how to handle Nuclear Materials in a an appropriate way. We need to do it in the what Han Institute of neurology but elsewhere. This is an obligation that the Chinese Government has and the World Health Organization that has responsibility for compliance with the rules. Hope i dont bore you with them but there are regulations that the Chinese Communist party signed up for. The World Health Organization has the continuing obligation not just from one back in december, but continuing obligation to make sure those rules are being complied with today that protects us from the ongoing pandemic but a future one as well. Reporter have you delivered the president s warning to iran . And second, are you concerned that the oil price will have an impact on the security of the United States and partners in the region . I have communications between yself and my counterparts . I dont have any comment on your first part. The president is creating a more Stable Energy market as well as the enormous increase in demand. Twep 20 and 35 over the past weeks and seen the price impacts that have resulted from that. Futures Contract Trading for egative 37 for a few days and what the president did a few weekends ago. One, to do everything we can to ensure we preserve americas capacity to deliver on its Energy Resources here and second, to work to create stability in the Energy Markets so you get price signals that are consistent with real demand and geting the Global Economy crampinged back up and key elements that will have the most significant on those price issues and the supply chain issues and the energy getting demand back to the levels we had back in october, november and december, 2019. Here in the United States we had most robust economies that the United States has ever had. When we get back to those levels and the world gets back to those levels, those governments that depend for their national g. D. P. On oil will be in a better place. There is real risk that those countries will face financial challengeses and we are in conversations with them how to bridge that gap collectively. Reporter given its fail your to notify the w. H. O. In a timely manner, do they owe individuals or countries compensation . And you spoke about multiple labs in china, what is your assessment of chinas handling of these dangerous materials . Im going to leave the accountability piece of this for another day, in terms of what we do to assign accountability and how we hold other nations accountable other than to that the who you mentioned multiple labs in china. Im not going to comment. What i will say it is easier to know the answer to your question about whether these labs are in compliance not only with the regulations but happened willing the material that is adequate, safe and secure since the world can have access and share that information openly and transparently and despite what the president said to take a look what was going on early on back in january if i remember correctly, we still do not have a system will of the virus nor has the world had access to the facilities or other locations where the virus may have originated inside wuhan. Indiscernible] provide real assistance to the palestinian people, to your point, are going to help. We will evaluate if the 5 million worked and delivered and more research either appropriate or can be delivered that gets to the palestinian people. First question was about the election. We are happy with a new government. It wouldnt have been in israels best interest but leave it to them. We are glad there is now a fully formed government in israel. As to the and exation in the west bank, the israelis will make those decisions and we will closely with them to share our iews in a private setting. [indiscernible] have a good morning. Captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org cspan has round the clock coverage and all available on demand at cspan. Org coronavirus. Watch white house briefings, updates from governors and state first, track the spread throughout the u. S. And world with interactive maps. Watch on demand any time unfiltered at cspan. Org coronavirus. President trump will hold a briefing with reporters on the coronavirus response. He is expected to be joined by Vice President mike pence and members of his task force. Watch the president s comments live at 5 00 p. M. Eastern on span. Washington jourm primetime on the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. 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