FIFTY-FIRST WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY Agenda item 33
WHA51.30 16 May 1998
Method of work of the Health Assembly The Fifty-first World Health Assembly, Recalling resolution WHA50.32 on Respect for equality among official languages, which requested the Director-General to ensure that the documents related to the agendas of the governing bodies were distributed simultaneously and in good time in the six official languages and that they were not distributed until they were available in all the official languages, in order to respect the principle of equality of treatment of Member States; Stressing the importance of multilingualism and equality among official languages of the World Health Organization; Taking note of the report by the Director-General on the implementation of resolution WHA50.32,1 in particular the fact that governing body documents have been made available in all languages on the Internet once dispatched; Recognizing that those countries whose national languages are not one of the official languages of the Organization require more time to translate and study the documents in their own languages, REQUESTS the Director-General to ensure that the governing body documents for forthcoming sessions are dispatched and made available on the Internet in the six official languages not less than 30 days before the date fixed for the opening of the session.
Tenth plenary meeting, 16 May 1998 A51/VR/10
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Document A51/25.