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Mr President, who would want to endanger their own health or someone else’s? Nobody, surely, would wish to do so, but the situation in Taiwan appears to be an exception. The health of its 23 million citizens, and also that of the many foreigners who live on the island, is in serious danger. Why is this so? It is, quite simply, for political reasons that Taipei is being systematically excluded from the activities of the World Health Organisation, and this is an intolerable and shameful state of affairs. During my visit to Taiwan, I also heard this charge levelled not only by Europeans who think as I do, but also by the indigenous population.
I am prompted to support this clear resolution even more strongly as a result of a very recent development in Taipei – as recent as this week, according to senior European diplomatic sources. Most of all, the Taiwanese authorities wanted to depoliticise WHO membership. Their primary aim was ‘meaningful participation’, in other words technical involvement in all WHO activities, precisely as described in paragraphs 2 and 3 of the joint motion for a resolution.
What I expect of the European institutions is the greatest possible effort towards protecting and promoting public health throughout the world. Even one single unprotected spot – whether it is called Taiwan or something else – puts the world at risk. Let the Chinese and the non-Chinese take this to heart, now or in future."@en1
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