外交部發布新聞稿表示,歐洲議會67位跨黨團議員8日聯名致函歐盟外交暨安全政策高級代表Josep Borrell,加上德國國會60位跨黨派議員2日連署致函譚德塞,總共127位歐洲政要共同發聲,他們一致讚揚台灣因應新冠病毒的防疫模式值得學習,認為WHO排除台灣參與是對台灣人民的歧視與不公,希望譚德塞秉持專業邀請台灣參加,以符合WHO「全民均健」(Health for All)、「不遺棄任何人」(Leave no one behind)的一貫宗旨。
Early career: After college, Tedros, joined the Ministry of Health of the Derg as a junior public health expert.[14] After the fall of Mengistu Haile Mariam, Tedros moved to London for graduate school.
The Derg (Ge'ez: ደርግ, "committee" or "council"), officially the Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia, was a Marxist-Leninist military junta that ruled Ethiopia from 1974 to 1987.