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Mr President, I genuinely regret what I have just heard - after all, we hear it said so often in this House. We can recognise Taiwan's achievements in the field of health care, as well as its involvement in international activities in that regard. From a legal perspective, however, it is not possible for Taiwan to obtain observer status at the World Health Organisation. Only States can have that status. European policy recognises one China; the European Parliament supports that position.
At the time of our previous resolutions on that same issue, which were adopted in 2002 and 2003, the Commission told us that it would examine the issue of Taiwan’s participating in the work of the WHO, in particular through non-State channels, via an NGO for example.
The Taiwanese authorities are members of the World Medical Association and of the epidemiological training schemes network. These two NGOs are themselves members of the WHO Global Outbreak and Alert Network. They take part in the warning system.
Currently, it is wrong to say that Taiwan does not benefit from United Nations protection. Nevertheless, we can call on China to examine the issue of Taiwan’s contributing to an appropriate field of international cooperation regarding public health."@en1
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