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    New Zealand's Foreign Minister says the World Health Organisation needs to remember it serves taxpayers worldwide

    New Zealand's Foreign Minister says the World Health Organisation needs to remember it serves taxpayers worldwide


    The US officially withdrew from the W-H-O last week.

    Winston Peters tweeted soon after it raises the question whether its funding is being used responsibly for its membership.

    He claimed this is the result of unelected globalist bureaucrats not being accountable or responsible with worldwide taxpayers' money.

    Peters told RNZ the W-H-O has forgotten its original mandate.

    He says we comprise the WHO, not the other way around.

    He says unlike politicians who are elected and have to respond to their people - it's unelected.

    © 2026 Newstalk ZB, NZCity

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