Taiwan’s foreign ministry on Sunday said that the island is yet to receive an invite to a key World Health Organization (WHO) meeting this week expected to focus on the COVID-19 pandemic due to obstruction from China.

Taiwan has been largely excluded from involvement with the WHO due to pressure from China, which refuses to acknowledge the island’s sovereignty and insists it has the right to represent Taiwan on the international stage. China says Taiwan can only participate under the “one China” principle.

The US mission in Geneva last week urged WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to invite Taiwan to the WHO’s decision-making body, the World Health Assembly (WHA). Taiwan attended the assembly as an observer from 2009-2016 when Taipei-Beijing relations warmed, but China blocked further participation after the election of Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen. China considers Tsai to be a separatist, charges she strongly denies.

“The Foreign Ministry expresses strong regret and dissatisfaction at China’s obstruction of Taiwan participating in the WHO and the WHO’s continuing to neglect the health and human rights of Taiwan’s 23.5 million people”, the ministry said, adding that the WHO’s refusal to invite Taiwan based on political considerations makes a mockery of the body’s “health for all” claim.

China’s mission to the UN in Geneva on Friday said the island can only take part if it admits to , something Taipei’s government has refused to do.

Last month, Taiwan’s Centers for Disease and Control that the island has hit 200 days without any local transmission of COVID-19 infections.