INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A spokesperson for the Chinese Mission to the United Nations Office at Geneva on Tuesday urged the United States to end its politicization
of COVID-19 origins tracing and stop exerting pressure on international organizations.In response to the groundless remarks made by the U.S
delegation at the ongoing 78th World Health Assembly (WHA), the spokesperson said it is astonishing that the United States – a country
that once announced its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) – is now baselessly attacking countries that have consistently
stepped up support for the organization.The United States has evidently lost its basic sense of right and wrong, the spokesperson said in a
China has always offered selfless support, instead of so-called undue influence, to the WHO.The spokesperson stressed that since the
outbreak of COVID-19, China has shared information and the genetic sequence of the virus with the international community at the earliest
possible time, and has also provided medical supplies and financial assistance to the WHO and 153 countries, including the United States,
which reflects China's commitment to safeguarding the common good of all humanity.China supports scientific origins tracing led by the WHO
and has invited WHO expert teams to China multiple times for joint studies, said the spokesperson.These efforts resulted in the
authoritative scientific conclusion that a lab leak of COVID-19 from China is "extremely unlikely," demonstrating China's openness and
transparency on the issue, the spokesperson said.It was also pointed out that certain countries, in an attempt to cover up their own poor
pandemic response, have resorted to smearing others
"Such political manipulation of pandemic issues is disgraceful and doomed to fail."The United States still owes the international community
a convincing explanation for the concerns raised by various parties about the origins and handling of the pandemic on its own territory,
said the spokesperson who also urged United States to share its early case data with the WHO and be transparent about Fort Detrick and its
network of overseas biological laboratories.The United States should stop political manipulation over COVID-19 origins tracing and cease
pressuring international organizations, the spokesperson stated.(With input from Xinhua)(Cover: A file photo of the logo of the World Health
Organization at its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland
