The UN Secretary General has criticised the US decision to withdraw funding from the UN Population Fund, a global family planning agency.
The US State Department claims the group supports coercive abortion and involuntary sterilisation in China, but it has denied that, saying it operates in accordance with US law.
Stephane Dujarric, a spokesman for Secretary General Antonio Guterres, said the move could have profound consequences:
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