REGIONAL COMMITTEE 16
Provisional Agenda item
Sixty-second Session Kathmandu, Nepal 7–10 September 2009
SEA/RC62/23 11 August 2009
TIME AND PLACE OF FUTURE SESSIONS OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE
Background 1. According to Rule 4 of the “Rules of Procedure of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia”, the Regional Committee determines at each session the time and place of its next session. 2. The annual session of the Regional Committee for South-East Asia is held in
conjunction with the meeting of Ministers of Health of the Member States of the South-East Asia Region in the second week of September each year so as not to overlap with the dates of regional committee sessions of other regions. 3. The Regional Committee is invited to decide on the venue and date of
forthcoming sessions based on invitations received from Member States to host such sessions. During years in which the Regional Director’s election is scheduled to be on the agenda, sessions have traditionally been held at the Regional Office. Also, when no formal invitation is received, the session is held at the Regional Office. 4. In considering proposals for venues and dates, the Regional Committee is
requested to keep in view the following resolutions of the World Health Assembly: (1) WHA7.26: “RECOMMENDS 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”;
(2)
WHA9.20: “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.”
Sixty-third Session At its Sixty-first session, the Regional Committee noted the kind offer of the Royal Government of Thailand to hold its Sixty-third session in 2010 in Thailand.
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Action for the Regional Committee 5. The Regional Committee is invited to formally accept the invitation from the Royal Government of Thailand to host the Sixty-third session of the Regional Committee in September 2010.