The World Health Organization's representative in China, Henk
Bekedam, says Beijing's cooperation with the organization is active
and sincere.
Bekedam says Beijing is willing to cooperate with the WHO. If the
organization has any suspicion about statistics, Beijing provides
the opportunity to recheck and verify them.
He
notes that cooperation between Beijing and the WHO is successful,
and WHO officials were frequently invited to attend Beijing
anti-SARS joint working group's daily news conferences.
WHO officials in Beijing do not believe that the Chinese capital
misreported the SARS situation.
(Xinhua News Agency June 24, 2003)
