UNITED NATIONS - Exclusion of anyone harms efforts to achieve global development goals, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said on Friday (Sept 15) when asked about Taiwan's appeal to be included in the campaign. World leaders will meet next week at the annual high-level UN General Assembly. But Taiwan is excluded under a 1971 UN resolution that recognises the...
UNITED NATIONS - Exclusion of anyone harms efforts to achieve global development goals, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said on Friday when asked about Taiwan's appeal to be included in the campaign.
"I think exclusion of anyone holds back the goals," Mohammed told reporters on Friday. "We said leave no one behind and I think member states have to find a way to make sure that we are not in that position where we're excluding people. "The so-called Taiwan's participation in the UN is a false narrative through and through. First, there is but one China in the world, and Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory," Zhang said.
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