Customers wear protective masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease while shopping at a market in Taipei, Taiwan, January 10, 2021. — Reuters file picTAIPEI, May 11 ― Taiwan will fight to the end for an invitation to a World Health Organisation meeting this month, its foreign ministry said yesterday, but China said there was no room for compromise over the island that Beijing claims as its own.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated that on Sunday and Taiwan says it is urgent during the Covid-19 pandemic.“But the Foreign Ministry will continue to work together with the Ministry of Health and Welfare to fight to the last minute and do everything possible for our right to participate in the meeting,” she said in a statement.
While the WHO cooperates with Taiwan's technical experts on Covid-19, it is up to member states whether to invite Taiwan to observe the WHO meeting, the WHO's principal legal officer Steve Solomon said at a news briefing on Monday. Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying condemned the United States for its “political manipulation” of the issue, and said Taiwan had to accept it was part of China if it wanted access to global bodies, something the government will not do.
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