The government in Addis Ababa has accused World Health Organization (WHO) Director General, Tedros Adhanom of using the organization’s platform to attack Ethiopia with impunity and showing his loyalty to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).
The Permanent Mission of Ethiopia to the United Nations at Geneva and other International Organizations in Switzerland has condemned wat it called the repeated falsehoods being spread by Dr Tedros Adhanom, the Director General of WHO against the Ethiopian government.
On the 3rd of November 2020, the outlawed TPLF viciously attacked the Northern Command of the Ethiopian National Defence Force.
From that moment onwards, Dr Tedros Adhanom, who is said to be an active member of the TPLF’s command and control structure, unleashed a propaganda campaign against the government, a statement from the Ethiopian foreign mission claimed.
It said Dr Tedros Adhanom backs illegal activities committed by the TPLF and shies away from exposing the rebel movement’s alleged atrocities against schools, public health facilities, institutions and infrastructures in the Amhara and Afar regions where there is an ongoing conflict with federal forces.
”He has never referred to a single health facility destroyed by the TPLF in the Afar and Amhara Regions of Ethiopia whereas other international organizations are assisting in rebuilding these institutions. The group he so strongly supports reignited the conflict to destroy these same institutions, the lives, and the livelihoods of people in the neighbouring regions.
“Under the guise of humanitarian and concocted family concerns, Dr Tedros uses WHO’s platforms to attack the government of Ethiopia with impunity. He has effectively tarnished WHO’s reputation, neutrality, integrity and credibility. These are grave misconducts for any staff of WHO to be this hostile against any Member State, let alone the Director General, who should have set the example. The flagrant violations of the Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct of WHO and several provisions of the Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service must be investigated and corrective measures should be taken by the Executive Board” ThePermanent Mission said in its statement.
The mission has since submitted a complaint to the WHO ‘s executive board calling on it to initiate an independent investigation into the supposed misconduct of its Director General who is allegedly using his office for personal objectives against the interests of Ethiopia.
it said ”this grave misconduct against a member state of the WHO must be stopped and corrective measures should be taken against Dr Tedros Adhanom without delay” the mission demanded.
Mr Ghebreyesus has not commented but was recently quoted as denying any involvement with any side to the conflict in his native Ethiopia.
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