PAN
AMERICAN
HEALTH
ORGANIZATION
WORLD
HEALTH
ORGANIZATION
17th DIRECTING COUNCIL
19th SESSION OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE
Washington D.C., 2 – 12 October 1967
RESOLUTION
CD17.R1
ADMISSION OF GUYANA TO MEMBERSHIP OF THE PAHO
THE 17th DIRECTING COUNCIL,
Bearing in mind the official request for admission to membership in the Pan American Health
Organization submitted on behalf of the Government of Guyana by the Acting Prime Minister of
Foreign Affairs of that country on 20 September 1966;
Considering that the Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau has communicated the
aforementioned request to the Governments of the Pan American Health Organization; and
Considering that the Government of Guyana has declared its willingness to assume all the
obligations set forth in the Constitution of the Pan American Health Organization, to comply with
the provisions of the Pan American Sanitary Code as modified by the Additional Protocol of 24
September 1952, and to contribute a quota to the finances of the Organization,
RESOLVES
1. To approve the request submitted by Guyana for admission to membership in the Pan American
Health Organization.
2. To instruct the Director to transmit this decision to the Governments of the Organization.
