The foreign ministry says that UN Resolution 2758 does not authorize China to represent Taiwan.
The foreign ministry made this statement Thursday, a day after the WHO said that its exclusion of Taiwan is in line with the resolution.
At a press conference in Geneva, a WHO official said that the 1971 resolution calls People’s Republic of China the only lawful representative of China. The official also said that WHO, which is under the UN, passed a similar resolution of its own the following year.
But the foreign ministry has countered that these resolutions only discuss China. They do not call Taiwan a part of China or authorize China to represent Taiwan.
The foreign ministry is urging the WHO’s decision-making body, the World Health Assembly, to uphold its goal of “health for all.”