World Health Organization Organisation mondiale de la Santé FIFTY-FIRST WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY Geneva, Switzerland 11-16 May 1998 A51/1 25 February 1998
Provisional agenda1
PLENARY MEETINGS
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Opening of the session Appointment of the Committee on Credentials (Rule 23) Election of the Committee on Nominations (Rule 24) Election of the President and the five Vice-Presidents (Rule 26) Election of the Chairman of Committee A (Rule 34) Election of the Chairman of Committee B (Rule 34) Establishment of the General Committee (Rule 31) Adoption of the agenda and allocation of items to the main committees (Rules 33 and 34) Document EB101/1998/REC/1, decision EB101(17) Document A51/1
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Review and approval of the reports of the Executive Board on its 100th and 101st sessions (Article 18(d)) Document A51/2
A compilation of resolutions adopted by the Executive Board and the Health Assembly over the period 1948-1997 is published in the Official Records of the Organization. This information is available in the WHO Policy System and can be accessed from the WHO website (http://www.who.ch) or directly at: http://www.who.ch/whopolicy/en The documents referred to under individual items on the agenda are as follows: Document WHA50/1997/REC/1 Document EB101/1998/REC/1 Document EB101/1998/REC/2 Fiftieth World Health Assembly: Resolutions and decisions Executive Board, 101st session: Resolutions and decisions Executive Board, 101st session: Summary records
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The Articles referred to are those of the Constitution of WHO; the Rules are the Rules of Procedure of the World Health Assembly (Basic Documents, 41st ed., 1996).
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Review of The world health report 1998 (Article 18(d)) The world health report 1998 Document A51/3
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Admission of new Members and Associate Members (Article 6 and Rule 115) [if any] Director-General Document EB101/1998/REC/1, resolution EB101.R13 12.1 Appointment Document EB101/1998/REC/1, resolution EB101.R11 12.2 Approval of contract Document EB101/1998/REC/1, resolution EB101.R12 Document A51/4
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Election of Members entitled to designate a person to serve on the Executive Board (Articles 18(b), 24 and 25, and Rules 100-103 inclusive) Awards Document A51/INF.DOC./1 14.1 Sasakawa Health Prize 14.2 United Arab Emirates Health Foundation Prize
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Fiftieth anniversary of WHO Document A51/DIV/3
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Approval of reports of main committees Closure of the Fifty-first World Health Assembly
COMMITTEE A
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Election of Vice-Chairmen and Rapporteur (Rule 36) Health-for-all policy for the twenty-first century Document EB101/1998/REC/1, resolution EB101.R221
This resolution recommends to the Health Assembly the adoption of a resolution containing the World Health Declaration.
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Document A51/5 20. Implementation of resolutions (progress reports by the Director-General) Documents A51/6 and A51/INF.DOC./2 % Task force on health in development (resolution WHA50.23) % Improving technical cooperation among developing countries (resolution WHA43.9) % Prevention of violence (resolution WHA50.19) % Health systems development (resolution WHA50.27) % Revised drug strategy (resolution WHA49.14) % Cross-border advertising, promotion and sale of medical products through the Internet (resolution WHA50.4) % Ethical, scientific and social implications of cloning in human health (resolution WHA50.37) % Health promotion (resolution WHA42.44) % Infant and young child nutrition (resolutions WHA33.32 and EB97.R13) % Tuberculosis (resolution WHA46.36) % Global elimination of blinding trachoma (resolution WHA45.10) 21. Disease prevention and control 21.1 Control of tropical diseases Document A51/7 % Chagas disease Document EB101/1998/REC/1, resolution EB101.R6 % Leprosy Document EB101/1998/REC/1, resolution EB101.R7 21.2 Revision of the International Health Regulations: progress report Document A51/8 21.3 Emerging and other communicable diseases: antimicrobial resistance Document EB101/1998/REC/1, resolution EB101.R26 Document A51/9 21.4 Noncommunicable diseases 3
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Document EB101/1998/REC/1, resolution EB101.R9
COMMITTEE B
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Election of Vice-Chairmen and Rapporteur (Rule 36) Financial matters Document A51/10 23.1 Financial report on the accounts of WHO for the financial period 1996-1997, report of the External Auditor, and comments thereon of the Administration, Budget and Finance Committee (Article 18(f); Financial Regulations 11.3 and 12.9); report of the Internal Auditor Documents A51/11, A51/11 Add.1 and A51/12 23.2 Status of collection of assessed contributions, including Members in arrears in the payment of their contributions to an extent which would justify invoking Article 7 of the Constitution (resolution WHA41.7) Document EB101/1998/REC/1, decision EB101(14) and resolution EB101.R17 Document A51/13 23.3 Casual income Document A51/14 23.4 Transfers between appropriation sections for 1998-1999 [if any] 23.5 Amendments to the Financial Regulations Document EB101/1998/REC/1, resolution EB101.R18
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Matters related to the programme budget 24.1 Efficiency plan for the financial period 1998-1999 Document EB101/1998/REC/1, resolution EB101.R16 Document A51/15 24.2 Supplementary budget for 1998-1999 [if any]
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Scale of assessments 25.1 Assessment of new Members and Associate Members [if any] 25.2 Scale of assessments for the financial period 1998-1999 Document A51/16
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Real Estate Fund Document A51/17
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WHO reform 27.1 Programme budget evaluation Document EB101/1998/REC/1, resolution EB101.R1 27.2 Review of the Constitution and regional arrangements of the World Health Organization (resolution WHA48.1)1 Document EB101/1998/REC/1, resolution EB101.R10
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Amendments to Articles 24 and 25 of the Constitution Document A51/18
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Collaboration within the United Nations system and with other intergovernmental organizations (Article 18(f)) 29.1 General matters Document A51/19 29.2 Environmental matters % Strategy on sanitation for high-risk communities Document EB101/1998/REC/1, resolution EB101.R14 Document A51/20 % Climate change and human health - WHO participation in the interagency climate agenda Document EB101/1998/REC/1, resolution EB101.R15 Document EB101/21 29.3 International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People Document A51/22
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Health conditions of, and assistance to, the Arab population in the occupied Arab territories, including Palestine Document A51/23
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Personnel matters: amendments to the Staff Rules Document EB101/1998/REC/1, resolution EB101.R20
See summary records of the second, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and twelfth meetings of the Executive Board at its 101st session (document EB101/1998/REC/2).
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United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund: appointment of representatives to the WHO Staff Pension Committee Document A51/24
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Method of work of the Health Assembly Document A50/1997/REC/1, resolution WHA50.32 Document A51/25
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