Lithuanian foreign minister urges WHO to invite Taiwan to international assembly

  • 2020-05-13
  • BNS/TBT Staff
VILNIUS - Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius on Wednesday called on the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) to invite Taiwan to next week's assembly that will discuss global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. "I emphasized that we respect and do not question the 'One China' policy, but in practical expert terms, Taiwan's participation as an observer would be helpful, and we would hope that China might perhaps agree to that, because we know that consensus among the parties is needed," Linkevicius told BNS after his telephone con...
 
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