World Health Organization countries don't invite Taiwan to annual assembly
Belize and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines spoke on behalf of a group of countries who brought a proposal to include Taiwan as an observer to this year's meeting - with Saint Vincent describing Taiwan's exclusion as 'unfair and self-defeating'. But China and Pakistan opposed the motion and the assembly accepted its exclusion.
"The proposal openly challenges the authority of the U.N. and the post-war international order," said China's Ambassador Chen Xu, repeating opposition voiced by the Chinese foreign ministry last week.
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