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The Argentine government led by Javier Milei has announced that it plans to pull out of the World Health Organisation (WHO).

A spokesman for President Milei said the decision to exit the WHO was triggered by "deep differences regarding health management especially during the [Covid-19] pandemic".

The announcement comes just over two weeks after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to begin the process of withdrawing from the international health body.

The two leaders have expressed admiration for each other, with Milei calling Trump's re-election the "greatest political comeback in history", while the US president described his Argentine counterpart as "my favourite president".

The decision by President Milei to withdraw his country from the WHO follows the same arguments that underpinned the withdrawal of the United States.

Both cited the response to the Covid-19 pandemic, which saw a long lockdown imposed in Argentina, as well as concerns over Chinese influence over the global health body.

The difference is the impact this is likely to have on the WHO itself.

The USA is by far the biggest individual contributor to the UN body, putting in around $950m (£760m) in 2024, nearly 15% of the total budget. The US withdrawal will pose some difficult financial questions.

Argentina on the other hand contributes roughly $8m a year. That is unlikely to make any significant material difference.

The bigger question is whether other leaders who share President Trump's world view, as President Milei clearly does, decide to take similar action.

If more states pull out – and that is admittedly a big if - the credibility of the WHO as the one truly global health body could take a hit.

Argentine media say they expect President Milei to sign an executive order in the coming days which will begin the process of Argentina pulling out from the WHO.

Speaking at a news conference, presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni said that "we Argentines are not going to allow an international body to interfere with our sovereignty, and even less with our health".

The spokesman argued that an exit from the WHO would provide Argentina with more flexibility to implement policies tailored to its own interests and to administer its funds as it saw fit.

President Milei, who describes himself as an "anarcho-capitalist", has been critical of the WHO for some time but the idea of leaving the body appears to have gained traction in the days after Donald Trump signed an executive order setting in motion the US's exit from the international body.

The two heads of state appear to share mutual admiration for each other.

Javier Milei was the first foreign leader to meet Trump after his election victory on 5 November.

Speaking at a gala at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort on the night of their meeting, Milei said that "the winds of freedom [were] blowing much stronger since Trump's victory".

Asked by reporters on Wednesday whether President Milei was planning to withdraw from other international bodies or treaties, the presidential spokesman refused to rule out anything.

"The president is very determined when it comes to making Argentina freer, so any link that Argentina has with bodies that go against its freedoms, we're going to do our utmost to prevent them from interfering in the lives of Argentines."

Environmental activists in Argentina say they fear that Milei will follow in Trump's footsteps and also set the wheels in motion to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement - the international treaty which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.


Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/05/milei-argentina-withdraw-who-transgender/

Your mind no go touch ground


No peace for a fornicator

The family of hit it harder harder harder until you die of cardiac arrest

RickyJesus:
What you are saying it possible but the video doesn't prove your case, if you can't produce a video of 2face helping Obi in the first place to hold the bag then your rambling means jackshit.

You go explain taya, no evidence.

I don't have to explain, people choose what to believe, i choose to believe what i observe likewise you choose to believe what you observed.

jjcena:
Tuface help him carried his bag, you only cut the video to where Peter collected it back

Don't mind the manipulative op who did cut and join

Chaiiii, see as the Op twisted everything.

The bag belongs to Peter Obi, it was 2face who helped Obi to carry his bag, along the line Obi requested to carry his bag himself.

Look closer and you will see that the bags look alike.

You guys should try and observe things before vomiting the venom in stomach

It's going to be a long day.

May God help us

tolexy007:
Truely how great thou art.


i never believe Trump can win despite all odds that are against him.



Congratulations President Trump.

my happiness knows no bound, just b like say na my papa win


abi make i do give away ni?

I see you my brother

To some people here dog have a mind of its own and can choose between good or bad leader?

Gosh, end of the road. Why do we keep losing to this countries

Trying to take a cue from VDM

Sim the main man

Good game, great news in this trying time

Some people will just open their gutter infested mouth

She has been rewarded here on earth

Emperor Wicked Wike

To big to form merger

Insensitive

Make Iwobi rest and stop being a woman

Court against court.

Federal against State

The animal that scared me the most is the snake. I hate all the kinds of snakes we have because of their sleek, creepy and sly in nature. I found them cunny and irritating even watching their documentary makes me cringe and develop goosebumps all over.

Which animals get you scared or cringe when you see them or watch them

Both should be admonished because some women are more violent than men

The Goat is tall like Hausa Goat

Eye service everywhere

K..ll those motherfvckers

Death toll rises to 313 in Gaza, with close to 2,000 wounded, as tensions continue to escalate on the second day.

At least 313 Palestinians have been killed as Israel struck 426 targets in Gaza, its military said, flattening residential buildings in giant explosions.

Among those killed in Gaza were 20 children. About 2,000 others are wounded, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said more than 20,000 Palestinians left Gaza’s border region to head further inside the territory and take refuge in UN schools.

Nebal Farsakh, the spokesperson of the NGO Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRC), told Al Jazeera that their medical teams were facing “great challenges” in Gaza, adding that they had called on the international humanitarian community to open humanitarian corridors so that NGOs like them could safely carry out their work of helping people in the Gaza Strip.

On Saturday night, Energy Minister Israel Katz said Israel would halt the electricity supply to the besieged territory. The Palestinian enclave – home to some two million people – has been under an Israeli air, land and sea blockade.

Al Jazeera’s Youmna ElSayed said humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip were in “constant deterioration”.
Israeli strikes flatten buildings, mosques in Gaza
Death toll rises to 313 in Gaza, with close to 2,000 wounded, as tensions continue to escalate on the second day.
A man takes a solar panel from a mosque destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Khan Younis
A man takes a solar panel from a mosque destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Khan Younis in Gaza Strip on Sunday. [Yousef Masoud/AP Photo]
Published On 8 Oct 2023
8 Oct 2023
At least 313 Palestinians have been killed as Israel struck 426 targets in Gaza, its military said, flattening residential buildings in giant explosions.

Among those killed in Gaza were 20 children. About 2,000 others are wounded, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said more than 20,000 Palestinians left Gaza’s border region to head further inside the territory and take refuge in UN schools.

Nebal Farsakh, the spokesperson of the NGO Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRC), told Al Jazeera that their medical teams were facing “great challenges” in Gaza, adding that they had called on the international humanitarian community to open humanitarian corridors so that NGOs like them could safely carry out their work of helping people in the Gaza Strip.

On Saturday night, Energy Minister Israel Katz said Israel would halt the electricity supply to the besieged territory. The Palestinian enclave – home to some two million people – has been under an Israeli air, land and sea blockade.

Al Jazeera’s Youmna ElSayed said humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip were in “constant deterioration”.


What used to be 120 megawatts of electricity has now decreased to only 20MW, provided by power plants that are paid for by the Palestinian Authority, ElSayed said.

Meanwhile, healthcare institutions had to rely on spare generators to continue operating through the night due to Israel’s decision to halt the electricity supply while residents were left to endure the darkness with the unsettling backdrop of explosions not far away

Source:https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/10/8/israeli-strikes-flatten-buildings-mosques-in-gaza