January 21, 2025 | 09:29 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Berlin will try to talk U.S. President Donald Trump out of his decision to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, Germany's health minister said on Tuesday, January 21, 2025.
The U.N. agency also said that it hoped that its top donor country would change its mind and looked forward to a constructive dialogue with Trump's team.
"The new U.S. president's announcement to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO) is a serious blow to the international fight against global health crises," Karl Lauterbach said.
"We will try to persuade Donald Trump to reconsider this decision," he added.
Germany is the second-largest national donor to the WHO, contributing around 3% of the agency's funding.
Trump announced the withdrawal on Monday, saying that the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.
In the U.N. agency's first reaction to the move, WHO spokesperson Tarik Jašarevi told reporters in Geneva: "We hope that the United States will reconsider, and we really hope that there will be constructive dialogue for the benefit of everyone, for Americans but also for people around the world."
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