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WHA46/1993/REC/1
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
FORTY-SIXTH
WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY
GENEVA, 3-14 MAY 1993
RESOLUTIONS AND DECISIONS
ANNEXES
GENEVA
1993
ABBREVIATIONS
Abbreviations used in WHO documentation include the following:
ACC - Administrative Committee on NORAD Norwegian Agency for
Coordination International Development
ACHR - Advisory Committee on Health OAU Organization of African Unity
Research OECD Organisation for Economic
AGFUND - Arab Gulf Programme for United Co-operation and Development
Nations Development РАНО Pan American Health
Organizations Organization
ASEAN - Association of South-East Asian SAREC Swedish Agency for Research
Nations Cooperation with Developing
CIDA - Canadian International Countries
Development Agency SIDA Swedish International
CIOMS - Council for International Development Authority
Organizations of Medical UNCTAD United Nations Conference on
Sciences Trade and Development
DANIDA - Danish International UNDCP United Nations International Drug
Development Agency Control Programme
ECA - Economic Commission for Africa UNDP United Nations Development
ECE - Economic Commission for Europe Programme
ECLAC - Economic Commission for Latin UNEP United Nations Environment
America and the Caribbean Programme
ESCAP - Economic and Social Commission UNESCO United Nations Educational,
for Asia and the Pacific Scientific and Cultural
ESCWA - Economic and Social Commission Organization
for Western Asia UNFPA United Nations Population Fund
FAO - Food and Agriculture UNHCR Office of the United Nations
Organization of the United High Commissioner for Refugees
Nations UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund
FINNIDA - Finnish International UNIDO United Nations Industrial
Development Agency Development Organization
IAEA - International Atomic Energy UNRWA United Nations Relief and Works
Agency Agency for Palestine Refugees in
IARC - International Agency for the Near East
Research on Cancer UNSCEAR United Nations Scientific
ICAO - International Civil Aviation Committee on the Effects of
Organization Atomic Radiation
IFAD - International Fund for USAID United States Agency for
Agricultural Development International Development
ILO - International Labour WFP World Food Programme
Organisation (Office) WIPO World Intellectual Property
IMO - International Maritime Organization
Organization WMO World Meteorological Organization
ITU - International Telecommunication
Union
The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this volume do not imply the
expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the World Health Organization
concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the
delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Where the designation "country or area" appears in the headings of
tables, it covers countries, territories, cities or areas.
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PREFACE
The Forty-sixth World Health Assembly was held at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, from 3 to 14 May
1993, in accordance with the decision of the Executive Board at its ninetieth session. Its proceedings are
published in three volumes, containing, in addition to other relevant material:
Resolutions and decisions,1 and list of participants - document WHA46/1993/IŒC/1
Verbatim records of plenary meetings - document WHA46/1993/REC/2
Summary records and reports of committees - document WHA46/1993/REC/3
1 The resolutions, which are reproduced in the order in which they were adopted, have been cross-referenced to the
relevant sections of the WHO Handbook of Resolutions and Decisions, volumes I, II and III (third edition), which contain
most of the resolutions adopted by the Health Assembly and the Executive Board between 1948 and 1992. A list of the dates
of sessions, indicating resolution symbols and the volumes in which the resolutions and decisions were first published, is given
in volume III (third edition) of the Handbook (page XIII).
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Index to resolutions and decisions: page 219
CONTENTS
Preface iii
Agenda xi
List of documents xiv
Officers of the Health Assembly and membership of its committees xix
RESOLUTIONS AND DECISIONS
(Resolution numbers are written WHA46...., decision numbers WHA46(...).)
PROGRAMME
Technical cooperation
WHA46.6 Emergency and humanitarian relief operations 2
WHA46.17 Health development in a changing world - a call for collective
action 17
WHA46.28 Collaboration within the United Nations system: health
assistance to specific countries - Cuba 29
WHA46.29 Collaboration within the United Nations system: health
assistance to specific countries 29
WHA46.30 Intensified cooperation with countries in greatest need, in
particular in Africa 30
WHO's general programme development and management
WHA46(8) Report of the Director-General on the work of WHO in 1992 47
General health protection and promotion
WHA46.7 International Conference on Nutrition: follow-up action 4
WHA46.8 Use of tobacco within United Nations system buildings 6
Protection and promotion of the health of specific population groups
WHA46.18 Maternal and child health and family planning for health 18
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Promotion of environmental health
WHA46.20 WHO global strategy for health and environment 21
Diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative technology
WHA46.19 Nonproprietary names for pharmaceutical substances 20
Disease prevention and control
WHA46.31 Dengue prevention and control 31
WHA46.32 Control of malaria 33
WHA46.33 Eradication of poliomyelitis 34
WHA46.36 Tuberculosis programme 39
WHA46.37 Study on a United Nations programme on HIV and AIDS 40
PROGRAMME BUDGET
Policy and guiding principles
WHA46.35 Budgetary reform 37
Consideration and approval
WHA46.15 Scale of assessments for the financial period 1994-1995 11
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WHA46.34 Appropriation resolution for the financial period 1994-1995 36
GOVERNING BODIES
World Health Assembly
WHA46.11 Method of work of the Health Assembly 9
WHA46(1) Composition of the Committee on Credentials 45
WHA46(2) Composition of the Committee on Nominations 45
WHA46(3) Election of officers of the Forty-sixth World Health Assembly 45
WHA46(4) Election of officers of the main committees 45
WHA46(5) Establishment of the General Committee 46
WHA46(6) Adoption of the agenda 46
WHA46(7) Verification of credentials 46
WHA46(13) Selection of the country in which the Forty-seventh World
Health Assembly will be held 48
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Executive Board
WHA46.16 WHO response to global change 16
WHA46(9) Election of Members entitled to designate a person to serve on
the Executive Board 47
WHA46(12) Reports of the Executive Board on its ninetieth and ninety-first
sessions 47
CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL MATTERS
Membership
WHA46.1 Participation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and
Montenegro) in the principal and subsidiary organs of WHO 1
WHA46.4 Admission of a new Member: Tuvalu 2
FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS
Financial matters
WHA46.5 Interim financial report for the year 1992 2
WHA46.9 Status of collection of assessed contributions and status of
advances to the Working Capital Fund 7
WHA46.10 Members in arrears in the payment of their contributions to an
extent which would justify invoking Article 7 of the Constitution 7
WHA46.12 Assessments of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic 9
WHA46.13 Assessment of The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 10
WHA46.14 Assessment of Tuvalu 11
WHA46.15 Scale of assessments for the financial period 1994-1995 11
WHA46.21 Special report of the External Auditor 23
WHA46.22 Real Estate Fund 24
StafT matters
WHA46.2 Appointment of the Director-General 1
WHA46.3 Contract of the Director-General 1
WHA46.23 Recruitment of international staff in WHO: geographical
representation 24
WHA46.24 Recruitment of international staff in WHO: employment and
participation of women 25
WHA46.25 Salaries for ungraded posts and the Director-General 25
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WHA46.38 Meritorious within-grade increases 42
WHA46(10) Annual report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board 47
WHA46(11) Appointment of representatives to the WHO Staff Pension
Committee 47
EXTERNAL COORDINATION FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
United Nations system
WHA46.26 Health conditions of the Arab population in the occupied Arab
territories, including Palestine 26
WHA46.27 Collaboration within the United Nations system: International
Year of the Famüy (1994) 28
MISCELLANEOUS
Medical law, ethics and humanitarian questions
WHA46.39 Health and medical services in times of armed conflict 42
WHA46.40 Health and environmental effects of nuclear weapons 43
ANNEXES
1. Contract of the Director-General 51
2. Emergency relief operations 53
3. International Conference on Nutrition 58
4. WHO Programme on tobacco or health: implementation of resolutions WHA42.19, WHA43.16
and WHA45.20 68
5. Method of work of the Health Assembly 74
6. Contributions of Members and Associate Members to the programme budget for the financial
period 1994-1995 77
7. WHO global strategy for health and environment 84
8. Dengue prevention and control 120
9. Ministerial Conference on Malaria 127
10. Expanded Programme on Immunization: eradication of poliomyelitis 133
11. Proposed programme budget for the financial period 1994-1995 140
12. Tuberculosis programme 148
13. Report of the Director-General on the work of WHO in 1992 156
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MEMBERSHIP OF THE HEALTH ASSEMBLY
List of delegates and other participants 185
Representatives of the Executive Board 217
Index to resolutions and decisions 219
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