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PM on NZ joining international investigation into Covid-19 outbreak: 'We're
interested in it for learning'

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New Zealand is part of a coalition of 62 countries backing an
Australian push for an investigation into the origin of the Covid-19
outbreak in China.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Photo: RNZ / Dom Thomas

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she didn't believe there was any
blame to be laid, but the international community was right to be
asking questions, she told Morning Report.

"We have agreed that we should look at these key learnings," Ardern
said.

"The idea that this one-in-100-year event that has caused global
economic shock, has had a devastating impact on the health systems and
the lives and livelihoods of people around the world - the idea that we
wouldn't want to look at that and learn from that seems surprising to
me. Of course, we would.

"We're not interested in this for blame, we're interested in it for
learning."

She reiterated the government's stance that [86]Taiwan should have
observer status at the World Health Organisation (WHO), "however that
does not change the position we've had since 1972 around the one-China
policy".
[87]"We're interested in it for learning" - Jacinda Ardern duration
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[95]"We're interested in it for learning" - Jacinda Ardern
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A coalition of 62 countries has backed a joint Australian and European
Union push for an independent inquiry into the coronavirus outbreak
ahead of a crucial World Health Assembly (WHA) meeting on Monday in
Geneva.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks during a press
conference on 22 March

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Photo: AFP

The Morrison Government has now swung its diplomatic firepower behind
the European Union, which has also been pressing for an investigation
while taking a more conciliatory line with Beijing.

European nations and Australia have been rallying support for a draft
EU motion which calls for an "impartial, independent and comprehensive
evaluation" of "the WHO-coordinated international health response to
Covid-19".

As of Sunday evening, Canberra time, 62 nations - including Indonesia,
Japan, South Korea, Turkey, Russia, South Africa and the United Kingdom
- had backed the motion.

The motion does not specifically mention China or the city of Wuhan
where the outbreak is believed to have begun.

At this stage, neither China nor the US have backed the motion.

EU foreign affairs spokesperson Virginie Battu-Henriksson said the
organisation was focused on reaching a consensus for an inquiry.

"Of course, we need to have the support of all the major players, and
China is one of them," she told the ABC.

Meanwhile, US diplomats have been pressing for tougher language that
specifically calls for a probe into how the virus started in the
Chinese city of Wuhan.

US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have both
furiously denounced China's initial response to the virus, accusing it
of covering up the initial outbreak and allowing it to spread around
the world.

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