SEA/RC56/R4
PROGRAMME BUDGET 2004-2005
The Regional Committee, Having considered the work plans for 2004-2005 pertaining to the South-East Asia Region and the related information document concerning Regular Budget allocations to regions, Recalling the extensive discussion on the subject at the fifty-fifth session of the Regional Committee culminating in the adoption of resolution SEA/RC55/R2, Concerned at the gradually deteriorating allocation of Regular Budget funds to the Region as a result of World Health Assembly resolution WHA51.31, and Deeply concerned that the present share of extrabudgetary resources to the SouthEast Asia Region is not commensurate with the Region’s high population and burden of disease, 1. WELCOMES the Director-General’s commitment, as expressed through recent policy statements, for a more equitable distribution of extrabudgetary resources at regional and country levels, and 2. REQUESTS the Regional Director: (a) to convey to the Director-General and the Executive Board: (i) the view of the Regional Committee that resolution WHA51.31 should lapse after the 2004-2005 biennium, in accordance with its operative paragraph 3(c); the need to consider new and more equitable ways of allocating WHO’s regular and extrabudgetary resources to better reflect the health needs and burden of disease of populations, and that the Regular Budget allocation to the least developed countries and the countries in greatest need in the Region must continue to be protected;
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(b) to organize a regional consultation on regional and country allocations and country workplans in the last quarter of 2003, and (c) to assist the South-East Asia Region in working with other regions similarly affected by resolution WHA51.31 in order to propose modalities to address the issue.