WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE LA SANTE
REGIONAL OFFICE FOR THE WESTERN PACIFIC BUREAU REGIONAL DU PACIFIQUE OCCIDENTAL
REGIONAL COMMITTEE Fifty-eighth session Jeju, Republic of Korea 10-14 September 2007 Provisional agenda item 18
WPR/RC58/15 20 July 2007 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH
SPECIAL PROGRAMME FOR RESEARCH AND TRAINING IN TROPICAL DISEASES: MEMBERSHIP OF THE JOINT COORDINATING BOARD
The Philippines and Viet Nam are the two Member States of the Western Pacific Region whose representatives currently serve as members of the Joint Coordinating Board, in accordance with section 2.2.2 of the Memorandum of Understanding on the Administrative and Technical Structures of the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases. The three-year tenure of the representative designated by the Philippines ends on 31 December 2007. The Regional Committee is requested to select one Member State to send a representative to the Joint Coordinating Board for the three-year period commencing 1 January 2008.
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A copy of the Memorandum of Understanding on the Administrative and Technical Structures of the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases is attached as Annex 1. It provides for the establishment of a Joint Coordinating Board to coordinate the interests and responsibilities of all parties cooperating in the Special Programme. The composition of the Joint Coordinating Board is described in section 2.2 of the Memorandum of Understanding. Each regional committee of the World Health Organization is responsible for selecting two government representatives to serve on the Board (see paragraph 2.2.2). The periods of tenure of past and present representatives from the Western Pacific Region to the Joint Coordinating Board since January 1978 are shown in Annex 2. It will be noted that the Region is currently represented by the representatives of the Governments of the Philippines and Viet Nam.1 The period of tenure of the representative designated by the Government of the Philippines will end on 31 December 2007. It will be necessary for the Regional Committee, at its fifty-eighth session, to decide which Member State will send a representative to the Joint Coordinating Board for a three-year period commencing 1 January 2008. The Committee’s attention is also drawn to the following paragraphs of section 2.2 of the Memorandum of Understanding: (1) Paragraph 2.2.3, which indicates that six members, in addition to the members selected by the
regional committees and those appointed under Paragraph 2.2.1, may be designated by the Board itself from among the remaining Cooperating Parties (see section 1.2 of the Memorandum of Understanding); (2) the last paragraph, which indicates that governments and organizations which are
Cooperating Parties in the Special Programme and have not been selected for membership of the Board, may attend its meetings as observers (at their own expense), subject to its prior approval. The Regional Director advises Member States by letter each year of the dates by which the name of any government interested in being designated as a member under section 2.2.3 or attending the Board’s meeting as an observer should be communicated to the Special Programme Coordinator, WHO, Geneva. The letters relating to the 2007 meeting of the Board, held on 19–21 June 2007, were 1
See decisions WPR/RC55(2) and WPR/RC57(3).
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dispatched on 19 March 2007.
The exact dates and venue of the meeting in 2008 will be
communicated to Member States in due course.
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WPR/RC58/15 page 17 ANNEX 2 Past and present representatives to the TDR Joint Coordinating Board from the Western Pacific Region 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Under paragraph 2.2.1 of the Memorandum of Understanding Australia Japan Malaysia Under paragraph 2.2.2 of the Memorandum of Understanding Cambodia China Fiji Lao People's Democratic Republic Malaysia Mongolia Papua New Guinea Philippines Republic of Korea Singapore Solomon Islands Viet Nam Under paragraph 2.2.3 of the Memorandum of Understanding China Malaysia Viet Nam
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