Lawmakers have passed a resolution aimed at securing Taiwan’s place in the annual World Health Assembly meeting. Taiwan had attended the meeting of the WHO’s decision-making body for a number of years as an observer, but it has now been excluded for five consecutive years due to pressure from China.
Friday’s resolution asks President Tsai Ing-wen and the foreign ministry to send formal proposals for ways to recover Taiwan’s observer status to nations that have expressed support for Taiwan’s inclusion in the assembly. These nations include the US, Japan, Germany, and France.
The resolution also calls on the foreign ministry to work towards securing supplies of the Moderna and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines to shore up Taiwan’s low vaccine supplies amid a growing domestic outbreak.