Forty-ninth Regional Committee for Europe: Florence, 13 - 17 September 1999: strategic planning for work with countries and distribution of country allocations in the European Region

REGIONAL COMMITTEE FOR EUROPE Forty-ninth session, Florence, 13 – 17 Sep tember 1999 W O R L D H E A L T H O R G A N I Z A T I O N R e g i o n a l O ffic e f o r E u r o p e C o p e n h a g e n DRAFT RESOLUTION EUR/RC49/Conf.Doc./8 9 July 1999 09619 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH S t r a t e g i c P l a n n i n g f o r W o r k w i t h C o u n t r i e s a n d D i s t r i b u t i o n o f C o u n t r y A l l o c a t i o n s in t h e E u r o p e a n R e g i o n The Regional Committee. Having considered document EUR/RC49/8 which contains: a plan for work with the countries of the European Region; proposals for including information in the programme budget to provide a realistic picture of support to countries; and the proposal for country allocations taking account of the additional allocations in accordance with resolution WHA51.31; Noting also the recommendations of the Standing Committee of the Regional Committee concerning the regional Organization's work with countries; 1. THANKS the Standing Committee and the Secretariat for their extensive joint work in arriving at the proposals and recommendations; 2. ENDORSES the principles and strategies for work with the countries of the European Region outlined in document EUR/RC49/8; 3. DECIDES to maintain the level of additional budget allocations to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kyrgyzstan, Republic of Moldova and Tajikistan, (as agreed in resolution EUR/RC48/R9) until the final additional allocation for the Region is received, from which time their allocations will be based only on the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Index; EUR/RC49/Conf.Doc./8 page 2 4. ENDORSES the proposal that future (i.e. from 2002—2003 onwards) additional budget allocations are distributed between the remaining EUROHEALTH countries (Albania. Belarus, Bulgaria. Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta. Poland, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Turkey. Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia1) based on the Human Development Index; 5. DECIDES that a supplementary cross-referenced annex, corresponding to the proposal contained in document EUR/RC49/8 and its Annex 1, is appended to future programme budget proposals to provide a more realistic picture of support to countries of the European Region. 1 As from the time that Yugoslavia may again become an active Member State o f the Region.