{"id":414162,"date":"2020-05-18T16:21:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T16:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2020\/05\/1064272"},"modified":"2020-05-18T16:21:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T16:21:49","slug":"bold-and-daring-action-needed-against-covid-19-who-goodwill-ambassador-urges-world-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/05\/18\/bold-and-daring-action-needed-against-covid-19-who-goodwill-ambassador-urges-world-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bold and daring\u2019 action needed against COVID-19, WHO Goodwill Ambassador urges world leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Set piece speeches need to be set aside by world leaders attending the World Health Assembly this week, in favour of \u201cbold and daring\u201d action to end the coronavirus pandemic, according to the World Health Organization\u2019s (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/feed\/view\/en\/\" title=\"World Health Organization\" class=\"word-link\" >WHO<\/a>) Goodwill Ambassador for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/sustainable-development-goals\/\" title=\"Sustainable Development Goals\" class=\"word-link\" >Sustainable Development Goals<\/a> (SDGs) and Health.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with UN News,\u00a0<a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.who.int\/goodwill_ambassadors\/james-chau\/en\/&source=gmail&ust=1589904199447000&usg=AFQjCNFkGqpfaCnQeuW_1PGWBT0cEhIZ_Q\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/goodwill_ambassadors\/james-chau\/en\/\" >James Chau<\/a>, told Maoqi Li, what he expected from the truncated annual meeting of the WHO in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2020\/05\/1064272\">UN News<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set piece speeches need to be set aside by world leaders attending the World Health Assembly this week, in favour of \u201cbold and daring\u201d action to end the coronavirus pandemic, according to the World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO) Goodwill Ambassador for th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414163,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414162\/revisions\/414163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}