AFR/RC30/R14:
The Regional Committee,
Recalling resolution AFR/RC29/R8 concerning health and liberation struggles in Africa;
Having considered the Regional Director’s report on measures taken to implement resolutions WHA33.33 and WHA33.34 concerning, respectively, “Assistance to front-line States”
and “ Assistance to the Republic of Zimbabwe” ;
Having regard to operative paragraph 3(1) of resolution WHA33.17: “Study of the Organization’s structures in the light of its functions”;
Noting the Regional Director’s comments in his opening address concerning the close interrelations between political independence and health for all by the year 2000;
Aware that health by the year 2000 would be incomplete and unattainable without the national freedom of the populations of Namibia and South Africa;
Considering that national liberation is a prerequisite to the establishment of primary health care;
Aware that increased international pressure on South Africa would result in increasingly severe oppression of the populations of South Africa and Namibia and in increasingly violent attacks against the front-line states, Swaziland and Lesotho;
RECOMMENDS that the sixty-seventh session of the Executive Board adopt the following resolution:
“The Executive Board,
Having considered the report of the Regional Director on subjects of concern to the Regional Committee for Africa which deserve the Board’s special attention;
Referring to resolutions WHA33.33 and WHA33.34 concerning collaboration with the United Nations system: Cooperation with newly independent and emerging States in Africa:
Liberation struggle in Southern Africa;
Noting with satisfaction the measures taken by the Director-General and the Regional Director to implement the above-mentioned resolutions,
1. INVITES the Thirty-fourth World Health Assembly to continue its invaluable support to the national liberation movements recognized by the OAU, the front-line States, Swaziland and Lesotho, which are subjected to repeated aggression and economic blackmail by the racist regime of South Africa;
2. REQUESTS the Director-General:
(i) to continue cooperation in the health sphere with the national liberation movements recognized by the OAU and with the above-mentioned States, in collaboration with the United Nations, the specialized agencies and other bodies;
(ii) to strengthen the health development programme with the new Republic of Zimbabwe.
September 1980, 30, 17