(Hanoi Comprehensive News) UN official said that China refused to participate in a survey project on high -risk places for the Asian cuisine market and wild animal diseases.
Reuters on Thursday (13th) quoted anonymous United Nations officials reported that the project named the Global Environmental Security (SAFETY ASIA for The Global Environment (SAFE) was originally selected by China, Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos.Investigations are conducted because these countries have a variety of places with risk of infectious diseases in animal conveying people.
The official said that the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the State Forestry and Grassland Bureau participated in the initial discussion of the research project, but eventually refused to join on the grounds that they were not within its authority.The official also said that the project party was still discussing with China, but did not explain which Chinese department.
Officials also said that China is unwilling to participate in the investigation project, allowing global scientists who have been asking Beijing to share the source of crown diseases to be frustrated again.
According to the introduction of the official website of SAFE, the project is coordinated by the UN drug and criminal issues and is funded by the European Union. It is currently launched in Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and Malaysia.The project will determine the high -risk zone of human and livestock disease transmission, and focus on the connection between wildlife trafficking and the spread of human and animals and livestock, in order to prevent major epidemics in the future.
After the first discovery of coronal virus in Wuhan, Hubei, Hubei, China, many researchers suspected that the spread of the virus was related to a local seafood market that sold wild animals.
