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Germany, France Quit WHO Reform Talks Amid Tension With Washington, Sources
Say

Reuters

   France and Germany have quit talks on reforming the World Health
   Organization in frustration at attempts by the United States to lead
   the negotiations, despite its decision to leave the WHO, three
   officials told Reuters.

   The move is a setback for President Donald Trump as Washington, which
   holds the rotating chair of the G-7, had hoped to issue a common road
   map for a sweeping overhaul of the WHO in September, two months before
   the U.S. presidential election.

   The United States gave the WHO a year's notice in July that it is
   leaving the U.N. agency -- which was created to improve health globally
   -- after Trump accused it of being too close to China and having
   mishandled the coronavirus pandemic.

   The WHO has dismissed his accusations. European governments have also
   criticized the WHO but do not go as far as the United States in their
   criticism, and the decision by Paris and Berlin to leave the talks
   follows tensions over what they say are Washington's attempts to
   dominate the negotiations.

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