WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION REGIONAL COMMITTEE Seventh Session Manila 7-13 September 1956 Agenda Item 16.2
REGIONAL OFFICE FOR THE WESTERN FACIFIC WP/RC7/11 2 July 1956 ORIGINAL: ENGUSH
SESSIONS OF hEGIOlJAL COi'il-:ITTEES OUTSIDE THE REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS The Executive Board at its seventeenth session discussed the question of costs entailed in holding sessions of regional committees elsewhere than at the site of the regional office and referred the matter for further consideration to the Ninth World Health Assembly.l Having considered the matter, the following resolution was adopted by the Health Assembly:2 "The Ninth World Health Assembly, Having considered a report by the Executive Board3 on the costs entailed in holding sessions of regional committees elsewhere than at the site of the regional office, 1. REMINDS regional committees of the provisions of resolution WHA7.26 of the Seventh World Health Assembly recommending that, 'in deciding on the place of their meetings, regional committees should consider holding them from time to time at the site of the regional office, taking into account the costs involved for the Organization and the Member States concerned 1 ;
. 2. INVITES the attention of the regional committees to the desirability of host governments participating in the increased cost resulting from holding regional committee meetings outside the regional headquarters, as has been done in some regions; and 3. REQUESTS that regional committees should plan the place of the regional committee meetings together with its budgetary implications two years in advance so that appropriate budgetary provisions may be made by the Health Assembly l;Jhen it approves the programme and budget for each year." The above resolution is presented to the Committee for information only, as the recommendations it contains have already been implemented by the Committee.
1Resolution EB17.R42, Off. Rec. WId Hlth Org. 68, 15 2Resolution WHA 9.20
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