Election of three Member Countries to fill the vacancies on the Executive Committee

regional committee

PAN AMERICAN

SANITARY

ORGANIZATION

VI MEETING

Havana, Cuba 15-24 September 1952

I

WORLD

HEALTH

ORGANIZATION

IV MEETING

CD6/9 (Eng.) 29 July 1952

ORIGINAL: ENGLISH

Topic 19: ELECTION OF THREE PIEMBER COUNTRIES TO FILL THE VACANCIES ON THE EXECUTIVE CO4ITTEE CREATED BY THE TEMRMINATION OF THE

PERIODS OF OIaIFICE OF EL SALVADOR, PERU AND THE UNITED STATES OF A!1ERICA

Article 13, paragraph A of the Constitution of the Pan American Sanitary Organization states in part that

"the Executive Committee shall be composed of seven Member Governments elected by the Council for overlapping terms of three years... A Liember Government shall not be eligible for reelection to the Executive Committee until one year has elapsed."

The following chart shows the current composition of the Executive Committee together with the expiration dates of the terms of the Members,

Executive Committee

Country Term Expires

Chile October 1953 Dominican Republic October 1953 Ecuador October 1954

El Salvador October 1952

Mexico October 1954

Peru October 1952 United States October 1952

Since the terms of E1 Salvador, Peru and the United States are expiring immediately after the current Meeting of the Directing Council three countries must be elected to take-their places.

MEMBERSHIP

OF

_{THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE}

TERMS

COUNTRY

Jonuory 1947 October 1947 October 1948 October 1949 October 1950 October 1951

October 1947 September 1948 September 1949 September 1950 September 1951 September 1952

Argentina

Bolivia

BraziI

Colombia

Costa Rico

Cuba

Chile

Dom. _Rep.

El Salvador

Guatemala

Haiti

Honduras

Mexico

Nicaragua

Panama

Paraguay

Peru

United States

Uruguay