CD20.R2: Admission of Canada to membership of the PAHO

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20th DIRECTING COUNCIL

THE 20th DIRECTING COUNCIL,

Having noted Resolution I of the 66th Meeting of the Executive Committee, in which that body

recommends to the Directing Council that it accept the application, submitted by the Secretary of

State for External Affairs of Canada, the Honorable Mitchell Sharp, for the admission of his

Government to membership in the Pan American Health Organization;

Considering that the Government of Canada 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; and

Bearing in mind that the admission of Canada to membership in the Pan American Health

Organization will bring a valuable contribution to the common effort to improve health and

well-being in the Hemisphere,

RESOLVES

1. To approve with satisfaction the request of Canada for admission to membership in the Pan

American Health Organization.

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Sept.–Oct. 1971 OD 111, 47