Argentina ratifies decision to withdraw from WHO as RFK Jr visits Buenos Aires
Source: Agence France-Presse
Argentina ratifies decision to withdraw from WHO as RFK Jr visits Buenos Aires
Agence France-Press in Buenos Aires
Tue 27 May 2025 17.33 BST
Argentina has ratified its decision to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO) during a visit to Buenos Aires by the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr.
The decision to pull out of the WHO was initially announced in February by Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, following in the footsteps of his US counterpart Donald Trump who had said in January the United States would withdraw.
Milei’s government justified its departure from the UN agency in a statement on Monday.
“The WHO’s prescriptions do not work because they are not based on science but on political interests and bureaucratic structures that refuse to review their own mistakes,” the statement said.
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