Argentina’s President Javier Milei addresses the viewers throughout the World Financial Discussion board (WEF) annual assembly in Davos on January 23, 2025. Milei stated at a Bloomberg occasion on January 22, 2026 that “The world ought to have fun the arrival of President Trump,”earlier than Donald Trump will star on January 23, 2025 in an eagerly-anticipated on-line look on the World Financial Discussion board in Davos, addressing international elites whose annual gabfest has been consumed by the US president’s days-old second time period. (Photograph by FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP) (Photograph by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP through Getty Photos)
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Argentina will pull out of the World Well being Group (WHO), a presidential spokesperson stated on Wednesday, following President Donald Trump’s govt order final month to tug the USA out of the worldwide well being group.
Trump, who Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei considers an in depth ally, moved to exit the group on his first day in workplace on January 20.
Milei ordered Argentina’s withdrawal due to “deep variations” relating to the WHO’s administration of well being points, notably the COVID-19 pandemic, presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni stated, citing Argentina’s months-long lockdown below the earlier leftist authorities.
Adorni additionally cited a “an absence of independence from the political affect of different states.”
Trump equally claimed the worldwide well being company had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and different worldwide well being crises, and that it required “unfairly onerous” funds from the USA, its largest funder.