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Taiwan says WHO ignoring requests for observer status at assembly

FILE PHOTO: Honor guards perform Taiwan national flag lowering ceremony at Liberty Square, in Taipei, Taiwan, April 1, 2020. REUTERS/Ann Wang/File Photo

Taiwan expressed "dissatisfaction and regret" over the World Health Organization's failure to invite it to attend an upcoming annual assembly in Geneva, amid diplomatic pressure from China to isolate the island.

The WHO had ignored Taiwan's repeated requests to be allowed to attend the World Health Assembly (WHA), scheduled for May 22-28, as an observer, the foreign ministry said in a statement.

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