PAN
AMERICAN
HEALTH
ORGANIZATION
WORLD
HEALTH
ORGANIZATION
27th DIRECTING COUNCIL
32nd SESSION OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE
Washington D.C., 22 September – 3 October 1980
RESOLUTION
CD27.R6
BIENNIAL WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLIES
THE 27th DIRECTING COUNCIL,
Noting the discussions at the Thirty-third World Health Assembly in 1980 concerning the
periodicity of World Health Assemblies,
RESOLVES
1. To endorse Resolution WHA33.191 relating to the possible changeover from annual to biennial
Assemblies.
2. To urge Member Governments of the Region to support the proposed amendments to the
Constitution of the World Health Organization on this subject when they are put to the vote at the
Thirty-fourth World Health Assembly in 1981.
3. To request the Director to transmit this resolution to the Director-General of the World Health
Organization and to the Regional Directors of the other WHO Regions for submission to their
Regional Committees.