The United States is backing calls for Taiwan to be granted observer status at the United Nations (UN) health agency’s biggest annual gathering, the US Health Secretary said Monday (Tuesday in Manila).

Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar spoke to reporters in Geneva on the sidelines of the start of the World Health Organization’s annual assembly, which China’s government has prevented Taiwan from attending.

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