{"id":18351,"date":"2020-05-18T11:26:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T02:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/18\/australia-wins-international-support-for-independent-coronavirus-inquiry"},"modified":"2020-05-18T14:39:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T05:39:37","slug":"australia-wins-international-support-for-independent-coronavirus-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18351","title":{"rendered":"Marise Payne hails global support for independent coronavirus investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Draft resolution to the World Health Assembly calling for impartial evaluation of responses to the pandemic does not mention China, but is backed by 122 countries<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s foreign minister insists a motion that has won support from more than 120 countries will pave the way for an impartial, independent and comprehensive investigation into the handling of the Covid-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Facing criticism from some hawkish Coalition backbenchers that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/18\/world-health-assembly-what-is-it-and-what-is-the-coronavirus-inquiry-china-taiwan-origins\">the motion to go to the World Health Assembly<\/a> on Monday night had been \u201cwatered down\u201d, Marise Payne described the growing global backing for a review as \u201ca win for the international community\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/18\/australia-wins-international-support-for-independent-coronavirus-inquiry\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Draft resolution to the World Health Assembly calling for impartial evaluation of responses to the pandemic does not mention China, but is backed by 122 countriesAustralia\u2019s foreign minister insists a motion that has won support from more than 120 coun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,645,324,50,1069,325,386],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-marise-payne","category-scott-morrison"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18363,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18351\/revisions\/18363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}