Swiss Minister Backs The WHO And Its Mandate

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(MENAFN - Swissinfo)Swiss Interior Minister Elisabeth Baume-Schneider has called for stable and sustainable funding for the World Health Organization (WHO). It is in Switzerland's interest that ...

+ Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox On Friday, Baume-Schneider met the Director General of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in Geneva, according to the interior ministry. Talks focused particularly on the WHO's tense budget situation and reform processes. “I actually came away [from the meeting] with renewed energy,” Baume-Schneider said in a Saturday interview with the Le Temps newspaper.

“Of course we are worried about the attitude of the US, but it's reassuring to see that multilateralism has retained its strength, perhaps even more than ever,” she said. This content was published onMar 22, 2025US cuts to foreign aid will have implications reaching around the world. For Geneva, home to thousands of NGOs, a lot is at stake.



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