President backs cooperation with Taiwan but not its WHO membership

  • 2020-05-01
  • BNS/TBT Staff
President Gitanas Nausėda is in favour of practical cooperation with Taiwan and sharing experience on containing the coronavirus crisis, but this island cannot formally become a World Health Organization member, the president's press secretary Antanas Bubnelis said on April 22. His comment came in response to a letter signed by 50 Lithuanian lawmakers and over 100 representatives of culture and science and calling on the president to support, at the highest political level, Taiwan’s involvement in the World Health Organization's activity.
 
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