SIXTIETH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY
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First report of Committee B (Draft)
Committee B held its first, second and third meetings on 16 and 17 May 2007 under the chairmanship of Mr Thomas Zeltner (Switzerland) and, after the election of Vice-Chairmen, by Mr Dennis Francis (Trinidad and Tobago) and Dr Abdul Azeez Yoosuf (Maldives). On the proposal of the Committee on Nominations,1 Mr D. Francis (Trinidad and Tobago) and Dr Abdul Azeez Yoosuf (Maldives) were elected Vice-Chairmen, and Mr H. Bin M. Al-Fakheri (Saudi Arabia), Rapporteur. It was decided to recommend to the Sixtieth World Health Assembly the adoption of the attached nine resolutions and one decision relating to the following agenda items: 14. Health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan One resolution, as amended 15. Financial matters 15.1 Unaudited interim financial report on the accounts of WHO for 2006 and comments thereon made by the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board One resolution 15.3 Status of collection of assessed contributions, including Member States in arrears in the payment of their contributions to an extent that would justify invoking Article 7 of the Constitution One resolution, as amended 15.5 Scale of assessments 2008-2009 One resolution
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15.6 Assessment of new Members and Associate Members One resolution entitled: – Assessment of new Member 15.7 Appointment of the External Auditor One resolution, as amended 15.8 Financial period 2006–2007: implementation of resolution WHA58.4 One resolution 15.9 Amendments to the Financial Regulations and Financial Rules One resolution entitled: – Amendments to the Financial Regulations and Financial Rules – Introduction of International Public Sector Accounting Standards 17. Staffing matters 17.2 Amendments to the Staff Regulations and Staff Rules One resolution, as amended 17.4 Appointment of representatives to the WHO Staff Pension Committee One decision
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Agenda item 14
Health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan The Sixtieth World Health Assembly, Mindful of the basic principle established in the Constitution of WHO, which affirms that the health of all peoples is fundamental to the attainment of peace and security; Recalling all its previous resolutions on health conditions in the occupied Arab territories; Expressing appreciation for the report of the Director-General on the health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan1; Expressing its concern at the deterioration of economic and health conditions as well as the humanitarian crisis resulting from the continued occupation and the severe restrictions imposed by Israel, the occupying power; Expressing its concern also at the health crisis and rising levels of food insecurity in the occupied Palestinian territory due to Israel's withholding of Palestinian customs revenues; Affirming the need for guaranteeing universal coverage of health services and for preserving the functions of the public health services in the occupied Palestinian territory; Recognizing that the acute shortage of financial and medical resources in the Palestinian Ministry of Health, which is responsible for running and financing public health services, jeopardizes the access of the Palestinian population to curative and preventive services; Affirming the right of Palestinian patients and medical staff to have access to the Palestinian health institutions in occupied east Jerusalem; Deploring the incidents involving lack of respect and protection for Palestinian ambulances and medical personnel by the Israeli army, which led to casualties among Palestinian medical personnel, as well as the restrictions on movement imposed on them by Israel, the occupying power, in violation of international humanitarian law; Expressing deep concern at the grave implication of the wall on the accessibility and quality of medical services received by the Palestinian population in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem;
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Expressing deep concern also at the serious implications on pregnant women and patients of Israeli restriction of movement imposed on Palestinian ambulances and medical personnel; 1. DEMANDS that Israel, the occupying power: (1) lift the closure in the occupied Palestinian territory, particularly the closure of the crossing points of the occupied Gaza Strip that are causing the serious shortage of drugs and medical supplies therein and comply in this regard with the provisions of the Israeli-Palestinian Agreement on Movement and Access of November 2005; (2) comply with the advisory opinion rendered on 9 July 2004 by the International Court of Justice on the wall which, inter alia, has grave implications on the accessibility and quality of medical services received by the Palestinian population in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem; (3) facilitate the access of Palestinian patients and medical staff to the Palestinian health institutions in occupied east Jerusalem; (4) pay the Palestinian Authority regularly and without delay its customs and health insurance revenues in order to enable it to fulfil its responsibilities with respect to basic human needs, including health services; (5) ensure unhindered and safe passage for Palestinian ambulances as well as respect and protection of medical personnel, in compliance with international humanitarian law; (6) improve the living and medical conditions of Palestinian detainees, particularly children, women and patients; (7) facilitate the transit and entry of medicine and medical equipments to the occupied Palestinian territory; (8) shoulder its responsibility towards the humanitarian needs of the Palestinian people and their daily access to humanitarian aid, including food and medicine, in compliance with international humanitarian law; (9) halt immediately all its practices, policies and plans, including its policy of closure, that seriously affect the health conditions of civilians under occupation; 2. URGES Member States and intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations: (1) to help overcome the health crisis in the occupied Palestinian territory by providing assistance to the Palestinian people; (2) to provide financial and technical support to public health and veterinary services in order to implement the Palestinian national plan for fighting the potential spread of avian influenza in the occupied Palestinian territory; (3) to help lift the financial restrictions and obstacles imposed on the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory;
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(4) to support and assist the Palestinian Ministry of Health in carrying out its duties, including running and financing public health services; (5) to remind Israel, the occupying Power, to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 1949; 3. EXPRESSES its deep appreciation to the Director-General for: (1) the efforts to provide necessary assistance to the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem, and to the Syrian population in the occupied Syrian Golan; (2) organizing a one-day emergency meeting on the health crisis in the occupied Palestinian territory and for the assistance provided as a result thereof; 4. REQUESTS the Director-General: (1) to provide support to the Palestinian health and veterinary services in establishing a modern public health laboratory capable to diagnose avian influenza in humans and animals; (2) to submit a fact-finding report on the health and economic situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan; (3) to provide health-related technical assistance to the Syrian population in the occupied Syrian Golan; (4) to continue providing necessary technical assistance to meet the health needs of the Palestinian people, including the handicapped and injured; (5) to support the development of the health system in Palestine, including development of human resources; (6) to assist in determining the so far inexplicable causes of fatal injuries and suffering afflicting Palestinian victims of Israeli attacks; (7) to report on implementation of this resolution to the Sixty-first World Health Assembly.
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Agenda item 15.1
Unaudited interim financial report on the accounts of WHO for 2006 and comments thereon made by the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board The Sixtieth World Health Assembly, Having examined the unaudited interim financial report for the year 2006;1 Having noted the first report of the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board to the Sixtieth World Health Assembly;2 ACCEPTS the Director-General’s unaudited interim financial report for the year 2006.
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Agenda item 15.3
Status of collection of assessed contributions, including Member States in arrears in the payment of their contributions to an extent that would justify invoking Article 7 of the Constitution The Sixtieth World Health Assembly, Having considered the third report of the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board to the Sixtieth World Health Assembly on Status of collection of assessed contributions, including Member States in arrears in the payment of their contributions to an extent that would justify invoking Article 7 of the Constitution;1 Noting that, at the time of opening of the Sixtieth World Health Assembly, the voting rights of Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Central African Republic, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dominica, Guinea-Bissau, Kyrgyzstan, and Somalia were suspended, such suspension to continue until the arrears of the Member State concerned have been reduced, at the present or future Health Assemblies, to a level below the amount that would justify invoking Article 7 of the Constitution; Noting that Cape Verde was in arrears at the time of the opening of the Sixtieth World Health Assembly to such an extent that it was necessary for the Health Assembly to consider, in accordance with Article 7 of the Constitution, whether or not the voting privileges of that country should be suspended at the opening of the Sixty-first World Health Assembly, DECIDES: (1) that in accordance with the statement of principles set out in resolution WHA41.7 if, by the time of the opening of the Sixty-first World Health Assembly, Cape Verde was still in arrears in the payment of its contributions to an extent that would justify invoking Article 7 of the Constitution, its voting privileges shall be suspended as from the said opening; (2) that any suspension that takes effect as aforesaid shall continue at the Sixty-first and subsequent World Health Assemblies, until the arrears of Cape Verde have been reduced to a level below the amount that would justify invoking Article 7 of the Constitution; (3) that this decision shall be without prejudice to the right of any Member to request restoration of its voting privileges in accordance with Article 7 of the Constitution.
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Agenda item 15.5
Scale of assessments 2008–2009 The Sixtieth World Health Assembly, Having considered the report of the Director-General, ADOPTS the scale of assessments of Members for the biennium 2008–2009 as set out below:
Members and Associate Members Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Central African Republic
WHO scale for 2008–2009 % 0.0010 0.0060 0.0850 0.0080 0.0030 0.0020 0.3250 0.0020 1.7871 0.8871 0.0050 0.0160 0.0330 0.0100 0.0090 0.0200 1.1021 0.0010 0.0010 0.0010 0.0060 0.0060 0.0140 0.8761 0.0260 0.0200 0.0020 0.0010 0.0010 0.0090 2.9772 0.0010 0.0010
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Members and Associate Members Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Congo Cook Islands Costa Rica Côte d’Ivoire Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland France Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran (Islamic Republic of)
WHO scale for 2008–2009 % 0.0010 0.1610 2.6672 0.1050 0.0010 0.0010 0.0010 0.0320 0.0090 0.0500 0.0540 0.0440 0.2810 0.0070 0.0030 0.7391 0.0010 0.0010 0.0240 0.0210 0.0880 0.0200 0.0020 0.0010 0.0160 0.0030 0.0030 0.5640 6.3015 0.0080 0.0010 0.0030 8.5777 0.0040 0.5960 0.0010 0.0320 0.0010 0.0010 0.0010 0.0020 0.0050 0.2440 0.0370 0.4500 0.1610 0.1800
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Members and Associate Members Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Lao People’s Democratic Republic Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Lithuania Luxembourg Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Micronesia (Federated States of) Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norway
WHO scale for 2008–2009 % 0.0150 0.4450 0.4190 5.0794 0.0100 16.6253 0.0120 0.0290 0.0100 0.0010 0.1820 0.0010 0.0010 0.0180 0.0340 0.0010 0.0010 0.0620 0.0310 0.0850 0.0020 0.0010 0.1900 0.0010 0.0010 0.0170 0.0010 0.0010 0.0110 2.2572 0.0010 0.0030 0.0010 0.0010 0.0420 0.0010 0.0050 0.0060 0.0010 0.0030 1.8731 0.2560 0.0020 0.0010 0.0480 0.0010 0.7821
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Members and Associate Members Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Korea Republic of Moldova Romania Russian Federation Rwanda Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa San Marino Sao Tome and Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syrian Arab Republic Tajikistan Thailand The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Timor-Leste
WHO scale for 2008–2009 % 0.0730 0.0590 0.0010 0.0230 0.0020 0.0050 0.0780 0.0780 0.5010 0.5270 0.0010 0.0850 2.1732 0.0010 0.0700 1.2001 0.0010 0.0010 0.0010 0.0010 0.0010 0.0030 0.0010 0.7481 0.0040 0.0210 0.0020 0.0010 0.3470 0.0630 0.0960 0.0010 0.0010 0.2900 2.9682 0.0160 0.0100 0.0010 0.0020 1.0711 1.2161 0.0160 0.0010 0.1860 0.0050 0.0010
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Members and Associate Members Togo Tokelau Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland United Republic of Tanzania United States of America Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) Viet Nam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe Total
WHO scale for 2008–2009 % 0.0010 0.0010 0.0010 0.0270 0.0310 0.3810 0.0060 0.0010 0.0030 0.0450 0.3020 6.6425 0.0060 22.0000 0.0270 0.0080 0.0010 0.2000 0.0240 0.0070 0.0010 0.0080 100.0000
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Agenda item 15.6
Assessment of new Member The Sixtieth World Health Assembly, Having considered the report on the assessment of a new Member, 1
WELCOMES the Republic of Montenegro as a new Member to WHO and sets its assessment payable of US$ 1490 for 2006 and US$ 4470 for 2007, being a scale of assessment of 0.001%.
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Agenda item 15.7
Appointment of the External Auditor The Sixtieth World Health Assembly RESOLVES that Comptroller and Auditor-General of India be appointed External Auditor of the accounts of the World Health Organization for the financial periods 2008–2009 and 2010–2011 and that he audits in accordance with the principles incorporated in Regulation XIV of the Financial Regulations and the Appendix to the Financial Regulations, provided that, should the necessity arise, he may designate a representative to act in his absence.
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Agenda item 15.8
Financial period 2006–2007: implementation of resolution WHA58.4 The Sixtieth World Health Assembly, Having examined the report on Financial period 2006–2007: implementation of resolution WHA58.4,1 DECIDES that any surplus Miscellaneous Income in 2006–2007 over and above the initial US$ 31.8 million authorization specified in resolution WHA58.4 (up to a maximum of US$ 7 million) may be used for financing crucial information technology and other investment costs relating to the implementation of the global management system.
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Agenda item 15.9
Amendments to the Financial Regulations and Financial Rules – Introduction of International Public Sector Accounting Standards The Sixtieth World Health Assembly, Having considered the report on the introduction of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) and associated amendments to the Financial Regulations proposed by the DirectorGeneral and endorsed by the Executive Board at its 120th session; 1. ENDORSES the introduction of IPSAS;
2. NOTES the change to the United Nations System Accounting Standards (UNSAS) that will permit WHO to introduce IPSAS progressively; 3. Further NOTES that the Director-General shall submit to the governing bodies for consideration at future sessions proposals to amend the Financial Regulations and Financial Rules resulting from the adoption of IPSAS; 4. ADOPTS amendments to Financial Regulation 4.4 in order to clarify operation of the exchangerate facility, to be effective as from 1 January 2008, and to Financial Regulation 4.5 in order to permit regular budget resources to be carried forward to pay for commitments made before the end of a financial period and undertaken by the end of the first year of the next financial period; 5. DELETES Financial Regulations 6.5 and 8.2 in order to terminate the financial incentive scheme that has failed to encourage prompt payment of Member States’ assessments, to be effective as from 1 January 2008.
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Agenda item 17.2
Amendments to the Staff Regulations and Staff Rules The Sixtieth World Health Assembly, Noting the recommendations of the Executive Board with regard to remuneration of staff in ungraded posts and of the Director-General, 1. ESTABLISHES the salaries of Assistant Directors-General and Regional Directors as from 1 January 2007 at US$ 168 826 per annum before staff assessment, resulting in a modified net salary of US$ 122 737 (dependency rate) or US$ 111 142 (single rate); 2. ESTABLISHES the salary of the Deputy Director-General as from 1 January 2006 at US$ 176 877 per annum before staff assessment, resulting in a net salary of US$ 127 970 (dependency rate) or US$ 115 166 (single rate); and, as from 1 January 2007, at US$ 185 874 per annum before staff assessment, resulting in a net salary of US$ 133 818 (dependency rate) or US$ 120 429 (single rate); 3. ESTABLISHES the salary of the Director-General as from 1 January 2007 at US$ 228 818 per annum before staff assessment, resulting in a modified net salary of US$ 161 732 (dependency rate) or US$ 143 829 (single rate).
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Agenda item 17.4
Appointment of representatives to the WHO Staff Pension Committee The Health Assembly may wish to nominate Dr J. Larivière of the delegation of Canada as a member and Dr A.A. Yoosuf of the delegation of Maldives as an alternate member of the WHO Staff Pension Committee for a three-year term until May 2010.
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