The International Community Has Intensively Spoken Out Against The Politicization Of The Covid-19 Traceability Issue

The picture shows on July 29, local time, in Washington, U.S., many Republican congressmen without masks go to the Capitol. A few days later, on August 2, Republican Congressman Mike McCall of the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee released the so-called "report" full of "evidence", again advocating the "laboratory leak" conspiracy theory.

With the accelerated spread of the mutated COVID-19 virus delta strain, the global epidemic situation has become more severe. However, a few countries headed by the United States are acting for their own interests, disregarding the facts, and continuing to spread lies and engage in political manipulation around the issue of the traceability of the COVID-19 virus. The US action has artificially created divisions, severely disrupted the process of virus traceability, and undermined international anti-epidemic cooperation. To this end, government officials, experts and scholars from many countries have recently intensively spoken out, calling on the international community to unite and strongly oppose the politicization of the source of the COVID-19 virus.

Multiple countries submit a joint statement to the WHO

For a period of time, individual countries headed by the United States have attempted to deny the conclusions of the first phase of the China-WHO joint research report, continue to advocate and instigate so-called "independent" traceability investigations, and continue to put pressure on WHO and its expert teams. On August 2, local time, Republican Congressman Mike McCall of the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee released the so-called "report" full of "evidence" and once again advocated the "laboratory leak" conspiracy theory.

The above behavior was strongly opposed by the international community. On August 2, more than 300 political parties, social organizations and think tanks in more than 100 countries and regions submitted a "Joint Statement" to the Secretariat of the World Health Organization, emphasizing the need for the international community to strengthen cooperation in the fight against the epidemic, and calling on the WHO to conduct objectively and impartially Research on the traceability of the COVID-19 virus firmly opposes politicizing the traceability issue. The "Joint Statement" pointed out that the "Phase 2 Traceability Work Plan" does not meet the requirements of the WHO resolution, has not been fully negotiated by member states, and has not fully reflected the latest results of global traceability research, which is not conducive to guiding the continued and in-depth progress of global traceability cooperation. .

In addition to submitting the "Joint Statement", as of August 4, 70 countries have expressed their opposition to the politicization of the source of the COVID-19 virus by writing to the Director-General of the World Health Organization and issuing statements. Government officials, experts and scholars from many countries have called on the international community to unite in the fight against the epidemic, and oppose the stigmatization, labeling, and politicization of the virus.

Shemonil, president of the Cambodia-Cambodia-China Relations Development Association, said that the traceability of the virus is a very serious scientific issue. It should always be scientific, professional, and objective, and should not politicize the traceability of the COVID-19 virus. The "Phase II Traceability Work Plan" is seriously inconsistent with the conclusions and related recommendations of the China-WHO COVID-19 virus traceability joint research report. It has been subject to certain political interference and has lost the spirit of science and cooperation.

Many Russian experts and scholars believe that the United States is trying to use virus traceability investigations to demonize China in order to seek political benefits. At present, it is not experts who are leading the discussion of virus traceability, but politicians who seek personal interests. WHO is under tremendous pressure from the United States.

Eduardo Klinger, a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Dominican Republic, wrote an article on July 26 that the WHO should not be pressured to politicize the source of the virus.

The South African Communist Party, a member of the South African ruling coalition, issued a statement condemning the United States for politicizing the issue of the origin of the COVID-19 virus. The statement stated that virus traceability is a scientific issue, and the international community should treat the virus traceability issue in a scientific, objective, fair and rigorous spirit and promote global anti-epidemic cooperation.

Michael Ryan, Executive Director of the World Health Organization's Health Emergency Program, said at the WHO outbreak conference held on July 30 that most of the WHO member states have reached a broad consensus that the issue of COVID-19 virus traceability should be stopped. To politicize this process, only in this way can traceability work have a good foundation.

Traceability politicization undermines anti-epidemic cooperation

At present, the epidemic is still raging around the world. The COVID-19 virus is the common enemy of mankind. To overcome the epidemic, all countries need to unite and respond together. However, the United States has not only never stood in the global unity and fight against the epidemic, but has been obstructing global traceability cooperation, undermining the global anti-epidemic joint force, and leading to the death of more lives. This is completely contrary to the desire of the international community to fight the epidemic in solidarity.

For more than a year, the United States has deliberately linked the name of the virus to China, denied the conclusions of the China-WHO joint research report, pressured the WHO to unilaterally propose a "second-stage traceability work plan", and spread false information about the traceability of the COVID-19 virus , The use of the COVID-19 epidemic to engage in political manipulation and discredit China has never stopped.

In this regard, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov stated that Western countries are trying to politicize the origin of the COVID-19 virus, which is not helpful to the global fight against the COVID-19 epidemic.

Miguel Nicolélis, coordinator of the Scientific Committee for the Joint Fight against COVID-19 Pneumonia in Northeast Brazil, pointed out that shortly after the outbreak, a small number of American politicians began to spread stigmatization, but there was no scientific evidence to support their claims. . The scientific community opposes the hype of scientific issues for political purposes, and politicizing scientific issues will not bring any benefit, but will cause great harm.

Mohamed Asif Noor, director of the Institute of Peace and Diplomacy in Islamabad, Pakistan, wrote in the media recently that the United States and other Western countries ignore scientific facts and trace the origin of the COVID-19 virus and politicize the epidemic. This behavior is more than the virus itself. More deadly, it will only make the international community encounter more setbacks in fighting the epidemic.

The chairman of the South African Democratic Independence Party and Cape Town councillor Anwar Adams believes that the world is currently struggling to fight the epidemic. However, while other countries insist on fighting the epidemic in a scientific way, some people in the United States are determined to politicize the problem. Virus traceability is particularly obvious.

Swiss biologist Wilson Edwards recently posted on social media that some health experts have been "threatened" for supporting the conclusions of the first phase of the virus traceability report. He wrote in the article that in the past six months, especially after the completion of the first phase of virus traceability, WHO insiders and some research colleagues have been under tremendous pressure from the United States, and even intimidation. He believes that the United States has reduced the science-led WHO to a political tool.

Radhika, a professor of political science at the University of Manitoba in Canada, wrote that the United States politicized the source of the virus in an attempt to divert people's attention from the unfavorable response to the domestic epidemic in the United States, weak economic recovery, and inflation.

China's traceability work has been positively evaluated

Knowing the source of the COVID-19 virus is of great significance to preventing the recurrence of similar epidemics. The tracing of the source of the virus is a common obligation of all countries in the world. The Chinese government has always supported the scientific development of virus source tracing. At the beginning of this year, the China-WHO COVID-19 virus traceability research joint expert group jointly carried out the global traceability work in China, and released a joint research report, setting an example for promoting international cooperation in virus traceability.

Michael Ryan gave positive comments on China's performance in the tracing of the COVID-19 virus. He pointed out many times that the COVID-19 virus traceability research in China was completed by a "very dedicated, very brave, and very patient group of international scientists." The research report is of high quality and should become the basis for further traceability work. Michael Ryan emphasized that traceability work should follow scientific guidelines. WHO looks forward to the cooperation and support of the international community in this process, and looks forward to this work to continue around the world.

South Africa’s Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sukraal said that China’s cooperation in the World Health Organization virus traceability issue is commendable. Now that the WHO complete research report on the traceability of the COVID-19 virus in March this year has been made, there is no need to continue to argue on this point. The international community should focus on how to help developing countries obtain vaccines, ensure the equitable distribution of vaccines and economic reconstruction.

The Acting Minister of the Ministry of Public Health of Afghanistan, Wahid Majruh, stated that China has an open and transparent attitude on the traceability of the COVID-19 virus and actively participates in global traceability cooperation.

Most countries around the world advocate that the traceability of the virus should fully consider the emerging new scientific evidence, fully adopt the relevant recommendations of the China-WHO COVID-19 virus traceability joint research report, and support medical experts and scientific researchers in many countries in a professional spirit. The virus traceability work will be carried out locally and comprehensively to provide necessary experience for the prevention of the next pandemic.

The voice of justice in the international community is in stark contrast with the distortion of facts and political manipulation by individual countries such as the United States. It fully reflects the justice and backlash of the international community, and fully proves that countries that uphold fairness, objectivity, justice and justice still account for the majority. . The COVID-19 virus must be eliminated, and the political virus must be eliminated! Opposing the politicization of the origin of the virus has become a consensus of the international community, and the US political conspiracy is destined to be nothing.