A number of U.S. Senators, including Cory Gardner, Chairman of the Asia-Pacific group of the US Senate Foreign Affairs Committee,Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton, John Cornyn, James Inhofe, Mitt Romney, Ted Cruz, etc signed a letter to the World Health Organization (WHO) Secretary-General Tan Desai, urging WHO to invite Taiwan to become an observer, and asking WHO to provide Taiwan with the information and assistance needed to respond to the Wuhan pneumonia epidemic. The joint letter states that in order to further protect global health and security, the WHO should grant Taiwan an observer status. The United States Administration has also repeatedly publicly reiterated The United States strongly supports Taiwan's participation in the World Health Assembly (WHA).
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