Seventh general programme of work covering a specific period (1984-1989) (Resolution)

40 REGIONAL COMMITTEE; THIRTY-FIRST SESSION ---------------------------------- RECOMMENDS to the Executivt' Bonrcl and, through it, to the World Health Assembly, that WHO should finance the cost of travel, excluding per diem, of one representative from each Member State whose contribution to WHO is at the minimum rate in the scale of assessment. Seventh meeting, 12 September 1980 WPR/RC31. R15 BIENNIAL WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLIES The Regional Committee, Taking into account the action at the Thirty-third World Health Assembly concerning the periodicity of World Health Assemblies, 1. ENDORSES resolution WHA33.19 relating to the possible shift from annual to biennial health assemblies; 2. URGES Member States of the Region to support the proposed amendments to the Constitution of the World Health Organization on this subject when presented for a vote at the Thirty-fourth World Health Assembly in 1981; 3. RECOMMENDS to the Executive Board, and through it to the World Health Assembly, that the contents of the present resolution of the Regional Committee for the Western Pacific should be taken into consideration during the discussion on periodicity of health assemblies at its sixty-seventh session. Seventh meeting, 12 September 1980 WPR/RC31. R16 SEVENTH GENERAL PROGRAMME OF WORK COVERING A SPECIFIC PERIOD (1984-1989) The Regional Committee, Having reviewed and commented on the nature, method and programme structure of the Seventh General Programme of Work covering a specific period (1984-1989),1 1. NOTES that the Seventh General Programme of Work is very strongly related to strategies to achieve health for all and should effectively guide the Organization's resources towards this priority objective; 2. REQUESTS the Sub~Committee on the General Programme of Work to include work in connexion with the regional contributions to the draft Seventh General Programme of Work as an additional item in its terms of reference; 3. REQUESTS the Regional Director to transmit its comments to the Director-General for consideration by the Programme Committee of the Executive Board in preparing an outline of the Programme of Work. Seventh meeting, 12 September 1980 IDocument WPR/RC3l/18. )