The government of Javier Milei He announced on Wednesday that Argentina will retire from the World Health Organization (WHO) due to “deep differences” with the organism in the health management of the Covid-19 Pandemia and for the sake of the “national sovereignty” on health issuesa measure with which the South American country follows the line marked by Donald Trump in the United States.
“President Milei instructed the Chancellor, Gerardo Wertheinto withdraw Argentina’s participation in WHO. It is based on the deep differences with respect to the Health managementespecially during the pandemiathat, together with the government of Alberto Fernández (2019-2023), they took us to longest confinement in the history of humanity and lack of independence against the political influence of some states“The presidential spokesman, Manuel Adorni, said.
“The Argentines We will not allow an international organism to intervene in our sovereignty, much less in our health“, has sentenced Adorni, who has ruled out that the measure may somehow affect the Argentine health system because he receives no financing from WHO.” It does not represent loss of funds for the country or affects the quality of services, “he said .
In fact, he has assured that the departure will give Argentina greater flexibility when making their own decisions: “On the contrary, it gives the country More flexibility to implement policies adapted to the context and interests required by Argentinaas well as greater availability of resources, And our path to a country with sovereignty also in health, “
Buenos Aires has not specified the date on which the final break will occur, but It will not be in any case an immediate rupture, since a year must pass from the formal notification of the withdrawal to the exit Final of the WHO.
Follow the Eeuu wake
The administration of Milei Secund thus the decision of the president of the USAthat his country abandoned the organization due to inequality in the collection of rates: “WHO continues to demand unjustly onerous payments to the US, very disproportionate compared to the contributions assigned to other countries. China, with a population of 1,400 million, has 300% of the US population, but contributes almost 90% less to WHO. “
Milei and Trump share a critical vision of the “supranational organizations”. The Argentine Presidency has indicated that these types of institutions “financed by all” do not meet the objectives for which they were created at first and “are dedicated to doing politics”, “imposing” even above the member states.
Nicaragua leaves FAO
For its part, The Nicaragua Government announced on Tuesday its departure from the United Nations Food and Agriculture (FAO) and also ordered the “immediate” closure of its representation and its offices in Managuaafter that body included the country as one of the most hungry nations in the world.
“FAO’s attitude is unacceptable, inadmissible and disrespectful. Consequently, we communicated the retirement of Nicaragua of this organization and demand the closure of its representation and offices in Nicaragua immediately, “Nicaraguan Foreign Minister demanded in a letter, Valdrack Jaentschke.
In the letter, addressed to the general director of the FAO, Qu DongyuNicaragua Foreign Minister rejected, “by lack objectivity, methodological rigorand for containing false informationwith an interference, aggressive and that has been disseminated in a evilly intentional way for political purposes “, the report Status of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024which indicates that More than 1.3 million people are hungry in Nicaragua.
“In the aforementioned document Information and data about Nicaragua are published that were not authorized, or consulted to our institutions, or validated For the Government of the Republic of Nicaragua, “he argued.
