The U.N. health agency says it updated its plans based on China's response but there's been "no quiet shelving of any plans" for investigating.
Top World Health Organization officials say they'll keep trying to learn how COVID-19 began but have run up against a lack of full cooperation from China.
"WHO has not abandoned studying the origins of COVID-19. We have not. And we will not," said Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO's technical lead for COVID-19.
"But we need cooperation from our colleagues in China to advance this," she said Wednesday. "I do also want to mention that through the work of studying the origins, it is very difficult."
U.N. leaders hailed Pope Francis as a champion of the environment and tireless advocate of refugees and migrants.
WHO members finally reach consensus on a draft pandemic agreement after 13 formal rounds of meetings since Dec. 2021.
Talks will reconvene next week to finish a proposed global accord for the World Health Assembly to take up in May.
The loss of funding could unravel major progress since 2000 in reducing women's deaths during pregnancy and childbirth.
The military draft now looms over young Latvians to bolster NATO-allied defenses, but many have started to embrace it.
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A major financial squeeze is hitting the embattled U.N., which is owed $5.1 billion for its regular and peacekeeping budgets.
Both sides moved to suspend most tariffs on each other's goods after an intense weekend of Swiss-hosted negotiations.
