The Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday thanked a group of European lawmakers, called the Formosa Club, for urging the WHO to invite Taiwan to the World Health Assembly (WHA) this month.
In a letter dated Wednesday, 1,084 incumbent and former European lawmakers urged WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to let Taiwan attend the WHO’s decisionmaking body as an observer.
Taiwan’s performance in managing the COVID-19 pandemic has been excellent and it has helped more than 80 countries in need, including providing 54 million masks and other medical equipment, the letter said.
Excluding Taiwan’s public health expertise from the WHO not only