U.S. Opposition to UN Breast-Feeding Resolution

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A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered this spring in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly... American officials sought to water down the resolution by removing language that called on governments to “protect, promote and support breast-feeding” ... The Americans were blunt: If Ecuador refused to drop the resolution, Washington would unleash punishing trade measures and withdraw crucial military aid. The Ecuadorean government quickly acquiesced... In the end, the Americans’ efforts were mostly unsuccessful. It was the Russians who ultimately stepped in to introduce the measure — and the Americans did not threaten them. The intensity of the administration’s opposition to the breast-feeding resolution stunned public health officials and foreign diplomats. During the deliberations, some American delegates even suggested the United States might cut its contribution the W.H.O. The confrontation was the latest example of the Trump administration siding with corporate interests on numerous public health and environmental issues.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/h...ence&smtyp=cur

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