Majority of international community opposes Taiwan region joining WHA

China's decision to oppose the Taiwan region participating in this year's World Health Assembly has won wide support from the international community, Xinhua News Agency reported on Sunday, citing a Chinese representative.

Yang Zhilun, minister-counsellor of China's Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office in Geneva, said at a briefing that a very small number of countries have decided to stand on the opposite side of a majority of countries and submit a proposal inviting Taiwan to participate in the assembly as an observer.

Such a proposal holds nothing new or any significance other than disturbing the order and agenda of the assembly, he said.

The Taiwan-related proposal violates international rules, especially the one-China principal affirmed by the UN General Assembly and World Health Assembly, Yang said.

The proposal lacks factual base, and it continues to hype the so-called "international epidemic prevention gap", which does not exist, he said.

The proposal does not have international consensus. Since the Chinese central government has stopped the special arrangement of allowing Taiwan region to participate the assembly in 2017, the assembly has denied Taiwan-related proposal for six consecutive years, Yang said.

The only thing that will happen to the proposal this year is another doomed failure, he added.