CD24.R1: Request of the Government of Surinam for membership in the PAHO

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24th DIRECTING COUNCIL

28th SESSION OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE

THE 24th DIRECTING COUNCIL,

Having examined the formal request for membership in the Pan American Health Organization

made on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Suriname by the Prime Minister and Minister

for General and Foreign Affairs of Suriname in a communication dated 8 March 1976;

Considering that the Government of the Republic of Suriname has declared its readiness to accept

all the obligations imposed by the Constitution of the Pan American Health Organization, to comply

with the provisions of the Pan American Sanitary Code, as amended by the Additional Protocol of

24 September 1952, and to contribute by means of a quota assessment to the financial support of the

Organization; and

Bearing in mind the recommendation made by the Executive Committee at its 76th Meeting

(Resolution XIX),

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1. To approve with satisfaction the request by the Government of the Republic of Suriname for

membership in the Pan American Health Organization.

2. To instruct the Director to transmit this decision to the Member Governments of the

Organization.