CD13.R33 : Resolutions of the World Health Assembly and of the WHO Executive Board of interest to the Regional Committee

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13rd DIRECTING COUNCIL

13rd SESSION OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE

THE 13rd DIRECTING COUNCIL,

Having examined Document CD13/29 and Addendum I, in which the Director brought to its

attention a number of resolutions of the Fourteenth World Health Assembly and the Twenty-Sixth,

Twenty-Seventh, and Twenty-Eighth Sessions of the WHO Executive Board,

RESOLVES

1. To take note of the following resolutions contained in Document CD13/29: WHA14.2

(Development of the Malaria Eradication Program), WHA14.38 (Malaria Eradication Program),

WHA14.27 (Malaria Eradication Special Account), EB26.R32 (Financing of the Malaria

Eradication Program), EB28.R27 (Malaria Eradication Postage Stamps), WHA14.39 (Priorities in

Program), WHA14.56 (Radiation Health, Including Protection of Mankind from Ionizing Radiation

Hazards, Whatever their Source), WHA14.40 (Smallpox Eradication Program), WHA14.37

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Technical Training: Resolution 797 [XXX] of the Economic and Social Council-paragraph 4-a),

WHA14.42 (Activities Jointly Assisted by UNICEF and WHO), WHA14.58 (Declaration

Concerning the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples and the Tasks of the

World Health Organization-paragraph 1); WHA14.24 (Adoption of a WHO Flag).

2. To urge the Member Governments to make voluntary contributions to the WHO Malaria

Eradication Special Account.

3. To take note also of the agreement concluded between WHO and the Inter-Governmental

Philatelic Corporation concerning the arrangements for the sale of stamps and other related

philatelic material, contained in Document CD13/29, Addendum I.

4. To invite all the Member Governments that have not yet decided to issue a special postage

stamp commemorating the world-wide malaria eradication program to do so, so as to contribute to

the efforts in disseminating information on, and stimulating interest in, that program.