SIXTY-THIRD WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY Provisional agenda item 15.2
A63/52 17 May 2010
Status of collection of assessed contributions, including Member States in arrears in the payment of their contributions to an extent that would justify invoking Article 7 of the Constitution Sixth report of the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board to the Sixty-third World Health Assembly
1. The twelfth meeting of the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee was held in Geneva on 14 May 2010 under the chairmanship of Dr M. Dahl-Regis (Bahamas).1 2. The Committee considered the status of collection of assessed contributions including Member States in arrears in the payment of their contributions to an extent that would justify invoking Article 7 of the Constitution and special arrangements for settlement of arrears. 3. The rate of collection of assessed contributions for the biennium 2008–2009 was 86% as at 31 December 2009 and, since then, the rate had improved to 97%, a level consistent with that in recent years. 4. The Committee noted that, as a result of very recent payments received from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Marshall Islands and Papua New Guinea, those Member States were no longer concerned by Article 7 of the Constitution. Accordingly it was noted that the relevant paragraphs of the resolution proposed in document A63/33 in respect of Article 7 of the Constitution should be duly amended. The Committee, on behalf of the Executive Board, recommended that the World Health Assembly adopt the following draft resolution: The Sixty-third World Health Assembly, Having considered the sixth report of the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board to the Sixty-third World Health Assembly on Status of
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For list of participants, see document A63/49, Annex.
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collection of assessed contributions, including Member States in arrears in the payment of their contributions to an extent that would justify invoking Article 7 of the Constitution;1 Noting that, at the time of opening of the Sixty-third World Health Assembly, the voting rights of Central African Republic, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Dominica, Guinea-Bissau, Palau, Somalia, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan were suspended, such suspension to continue until the arrears of the Member States concerned have been reduced, at the present or future Health Assemblies, to a level below the amount that would justify invoking Article 7 of the Constitution; Noting that Djibouti and Equatorial Guinea were in arrears at the time of the opening of the Sixty-third World Health Assembly to such an extent that it was necessary for the Health Assembly to consider, in accordance with Article 7 of the Constitution, whether or not the voting privileges of those countries should be suspended at the opening of the Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly, DECIDES: (1) that in accordance with the statement of principles set out in resolution WHA41.7 if, by the time of the opening of the Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly, Djibouti and Equatorial Guinea are still in arrears in the payment of their contributions to an extent that would justify invoking Article 7 of the Constitution, their voting privileges shall be suspended as from the said opening; (2) that any suspension that takes effect as aforesaid shall continue at subsequent Health Assemblies, until the arrears of Djibouti and Equatorial Guinea have been reduced to a level below the amount that would justify invoking Article 7 of the Constitution; (3) that this decision shall be without prejudice to the right of any Member to request restoration of its voting privileges in accordance with Article 7 of the Constitution.
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See document A63/33.
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