SIXTY-EIGHTH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY Agenda item 21.2
WHA68.11 26 May 2015
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-eighth World Health Assembly, Having considered the reports 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, and special arrangements for settlement of arrears;1 Noting that, at the time of opening of the Sixty-eighth World Health Assembly, the voting rights of Central African Republic, Comoros, Guinea-Bissau, Somalia and Ukraine 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 Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Guinea, Haiti, Kyrgyzstan, Timor-Leste and Yemen were in arrears at the time of the opening of the Sixty-eighth 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 Kyrgyzstan at the opening of the Sixty-eighth World Health Assembly, and for the remaining six Member States at the opening of the Sixty-ninth 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-ninth World Health Assembly, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Guinea, Haiti, Timor-Leste and Yemen 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 WHA61.8 if, by the time of the opening of the Sixty-eighth World Health Assembly, Kyrgyzstan, is still in arrears in the payment of its assessment, 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-ninth World Health Assembly and subsequent Health Assemblies, until the arrears of
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Documents A68/39 and A68/58.
WHA68.11
Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Guinea, Haiti, Kyrgyzstan, Timor-Leste and Yemen 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. Ninth plenary meeting, 26 May 2015 A68/VR/9
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