As these events were taking place, on May 16 at the WHO meeting in Geneva, without informing Taiwan, China announced it had signed a memorandum with the organization to aid Taiwan's entry into WHO, on condition that Taiwan accepted the "one China" principle and that entry procedures be handled under Beijing's supervision. These conditions were naturally rejected by the Taiwanese representatives.
在此同時，5 月 16 日在瑞士日內瓦召開的世界衛生大會，中共在完全沒有知會台灣的情況下，對外宣稱已與世界衛生組織秘書處簽署將協助台灣加入 WHO 的備忘錄，但前提還是要承認一中，並在北京政府的管控下進行活動，此一說法當然為台灣代表峻拒。