SIXTY-SEVENTH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY Agenda item 20.3
WHA67.5 23 May 2014
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 Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly, Having considered the report on status of collection of assessed contributions, including Members in arrears in the payment of their contributions to an extent that would justify invoking Article 7 of the Constitution;1 Having noted the report of the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board to the Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly; 2 Noting that, at the time of opening of the Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly, the voting rights of Central African Republic, Comoros, Grenada, Guinea-Bissau and Somalia were suspended, such suspension to continue until the arrears of the Members 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 the voting rights of Antigua and Barbuda, were suspended during the Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly, effective from the Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly and to continue until the arrears of the Members 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 Lesotho, Mauritania, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, South Sudan, Suriname and Ukraine were in arrears at the time of the opening of the Sixty-seventh 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 the voting privileges of those countries should be suspended – for Ukraine at the opening of the Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly, and for the remaining five Member States at the opening of the Sixty-eighth 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-eighth World Health Assembly, Lesotho, Mauritania, 1 2
Document A67/44. Document A67/57.
WHA67.5
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, South Sudan and Suriname are still in arrears in the payment of their contributions to an extent that would justify invoking Article 7 of the Constitution, their voting privileges shall be suspended as from the said opening; and in accordance with resolution WHA64.20 if, by the time of the opening of the Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly, Ukraine is still in arrears in the payment of its rescheduled assessments, its voting privileges shall be suspended automatically; (2) that any suspension that takes effect as set out in paragraph (1) above shall continue at the Sixty-eighth World Health Assembly and subsequent Health Assemblies, until the arrears of Lesotho, Mauritania, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, South Sudan, Suriname and Ukraine 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.
Eighth plenary meeting, 23 May 2014 A67/VR/8
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