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THIRTY-THIRD WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY Agenda item 41

PERIODICITY OF HEALTH ASSEMBLIES

(Draft resolution proposed by the delegation of the German Democratic Republic)

The Thirty-third World Health Assembly,

Having considered the question of the periodicity of World Health Assemblies and, in particular, the outcome of the discussion on this question at the sixty-fifth session of the WHO Executive Board in January 1980;

Taking into consideration the results of study and settlement periodicity of Assemblies at previous Assembly sessions and in the recalling in particular resolutions WHA6.57 and WHA12.38, in which alter the periodicity of World Health Assemblies ;

Emphasizing that settlement of matters concerning Assemblies' review of the structure of WHO are indissolubly linked ;

of the question of the Executive Board, and it was decided not to

periodicity and study and

1. RESOLVES that at the present stage, when the Organization has undertaken the framing and implementation of "strategies for health for all by the year 2000м and transformation of its structures in the light of new functions, it would be inexpedient to change the periodicity and duration of World Health Assemblies ;

2. INVITES the Director-General and the Executive Board to continue to study the periodicity and duration of Assembly sessions, taking into account the whole complex of problems facing the Organization and particularly decisions on the structural reorganization of WHO in the light of its new functions ;

3. DECIDES to take up consideration of this question again at a future World Health Assembly.

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION АЗЗ/в/conf .Paper No.5 Add.l ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE LA SANTÉ 19 May 198o

THIRTY-THIRD WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY Agenda item 41

PERIODICITY OF HEALTH ASSEMBLIES

(Amendments proposed by the delegations of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

and Zaire to the draft resolution contained in document АЗЗ/в/conf.Paper No,5)

Operative paragraph 1:

in the third line, the word 11 inexpedient11 should be replaced by '*inappropriate11 (Zaire) in the fourth line, delete !,and duration11 (United Kingdom)

Operative paragraph 2:

in the second line, delete 11 and duration11 (United Kingdom) Replace operative paragraph 3 by:

3. INVITES the Director-General to submit the results of the study of this question to a future World Health Assembly, (United Kingdom and Zaire).

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ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE LA SANTÉ 20 May 1980 THIRTY-THIRD WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY

Agenda item 41

PERIODICITY OF HEALTH ASSEMBLIES

(Amendments proposed by the delegations of Comoros and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

to the draft resolution contained in documents

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Operative paragraph 3 (as proposed in document

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the second line should read as follows：

"the next session of the World Health Assembly11 (Comoros).

After operative paragraph 3, add a new operative paragraph：

4. BELIEVES that, as soon as possible, Assemblies in the even years (when there is not a full Programme Budget to consider) should be limited to not more than two weeks' duration (United Kingdom)•