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Provisional agenda item 3.4

SITUATION REGARDING THE POSSIBILITIES FOR THE ACCEPTANCE OF AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF WHO

Pursuant to operative paragraph 2 of resolution WHA22.26, the Director-General has the honour to report to the Twenty-third World Health Assembly on the situation regarding the acceptance of the amendments to Articles 7, 2 and 24 and 25°q of the WHO Constitution.

Thirty-nine Member States have now accepted the amendment to Article 7 and 40 the amendments to Articles 24 and 25 of the Constitution, The acceptances are listed respectively in Annexes A and В to this document.

On the basis of the present membership of WHO, namely 128 Members, the two-thirds required for the entry-into-force of these amendments would be obtained when 86 acceptances had been received.

1 Off. Rec. Wld Hlth Org., 176, 11. 2 Handbook of Resolutions and Decisions, 10th ed., p. 299. 3 Handbook of Resolutions and Decisions, 10th ed., p. 300. A23/AFL/1 page 2

ANNEX A

LIST OF COUNTRIES HAVING DEPOSITED A FORMAL INSTRUMENT OF ACCEPTANCE OF THE AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE 7 OF THE CONSTITUTION WITH THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE

Name of country Date of deposit of formal instrument of acceptance

1. MAURITANIA 26 2. ZAMBIA 22 3. MADAGASCAR 26 November 1965 4. 2 5. IVORY COAST 6 December 1965 6. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 13 December 1965 7. GUINEA 22 December 1965 8. 5 9. DAHOMEY 2 10. 9 February 1966 11. SIERRA LEONE 3 12. BURMA 8 March 1966 13. TUNISIA 9 March 1966 14. 29 March 1966 15. UPPER VOLTA 6 16. NIGER 9 May 1966 17. 10 May 1966 18. 11 May 1966 19. 27 May 1966 20. 2 21. 30 June 1966 22. SENEGAL 7 23. 8 July 1966 24. 20 July 1966 25. UNITED REPUBLIC OF 17 26. 19 27. MALI 18 28. AFGHANISTAN 16 29. 2 30. 26 31. COSTA RICA 15 32. PERU 20 June 1967 33. 3 34. 5 35. 20 36. LEBANON 5 37. 12 February 1968 38. MALDIVES 10 39. 8 A2з/a Fl / i page 3

ANNEX В

LIST OF COUNTRIES HAVING DEPOSITED A FORMAL INSTRUMENT OF ACCEPTANCE OF THE AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLES 24 AND 25 OF THE CONSTITUTION WITH THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS

Name of country Date of deposit of formal instrument of acceptance

1. IVORY COAST 12 September 1967 2. TUNISIA 5 3. PERU 18 October 1967 4. MADAGASCAR 19 October 1967 5. SAUDI ARABIA 9 November 1967 6. 20 November 1967 7. 5 8. REPUBLIC OF KOREA 13 December 1967 9. FINLAND 21 December 1967 10. BARBADOS 27 December 1967 11. NEW ZEALAND 28 December 1967 12. KUWAIT 2 13. NIGERIA 24 January 1968 14. ZAMBIA 25 January 1968 15. NORWAY 7 February 1968 16. TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 27 February 1968 17. BELGIUM 3 18. 24 May 1968 19. 7 20. OF GREAT BRITAIN AND 19 June 1968 21. UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC 26 July 1968 22. 29 July 1968 23. MALI 6 24. 8 August 1968 25. GHANA 30 August 1968 26. YUGOSLAVIA 3 27. NIGER 4 September 1968 28. 4 September 1968 29. 6 September 1968 30. SWEDEN 9 September 1968 31. 14 32. MALDIVES 2 33. BURMA 27 34. MAURITIUS 8 April 1969 35. 15 36. 24 37. 29 38. SIERRA LEONE 26 39. 10 40. 24 February 1970 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION A23/AFL/1 Add.1

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TWENTY-THIRD WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE В

Agenda item 3.4 -,XEQ

I 8 MAI - X ¿¡Ц? Ч'Ъ SITUATION REGARDING THE POSSIBILITIES FOR THE ACCEPTANCE OF AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF WHO

Further to the information contained in document A23/AFL/l, the Director-General has the honour to report to the Health Assembly that Iraq and have accepted the amendments to Articles 24 and 25 of the Constitution on 9 and 21 respectively, thus bringing the number of acceptances to 42.