WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION MONDIALE ORGANIZATION DE LA SANTÉ
TWELFTH WORLT HEALTH ASSEMBLY A12/AFI/12 y 29 April 1959 Provisional agenda item 7.15-1 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH
STATUS OF RATIFICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES OF THE SPECIALIZED AGENCIES
Report by the Director-General
1. Twenty-eight Member States out of the Organization's total membership of eighty-five have acceded, to the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies and its Annex VII since its adoption by the First World Health Assembly in Juljr 19^8. The acceding States and relevant dates are shown in the annex to this document.
2. As so far only a relatively small number of States have acceded to the i Convention, despite earlier invitations of the Health Assembly to States to take due action, the Director-General is obliged to make special arrangements to cover the legal status of the Organization and its privileges and immunities wherever there is a programme to be carried out in the territories of governments which have not acceded to this Convention. In order to avoid the difficulties which have been encountered by the Organization in connexion with the legal status and the privileges and immunities afforded to the Organization and its officials, it would be desirable that those Member States not yet party to the Convention and its Annex VII, accede thereto. A12/AFL/12 page 2 АЖЕХ
ACCESSIONS AND NOTIFICATIONS
Convention Annex VII
Country Accession First Revision Second Revision Third Revision
Afghanistan Albania Argentina Australia Austria 21 July I950 21 January 1955 1 November 1957 28 October 1958 Belgium 1 May 195З (with reservations) Bolivia Brazil Bulgaria Burma Byelorussian SSR Cambodia 26 September 1955 Canada Ceylon Chile 21 September 1951 China Costa Rica Cuba Czechoslovakia Denmark 25 January 1950 22 May 1951 14 October 1957 8 January 1959 Dominican Republic Ecuador 7 July 195З El Salvador Ethiopia Finland 31 July 1958 31 July 1958 2 December 1958 France'*'
The Government of France concluded a Host Agreement with WHO determining the privileges, immunities and facilities to be granted to WHO for its Regional Office for Africa (Brazzaville) only. This Agreement entered into force on 20 May 1953’ A12/AEI/12 page 3
Annex
Convention Annex VII
Country Accession First Revision Second Revision Third Revision
Germany (Federal 10 October 1957 10 October 1957 5 September 1958 11 February 1959 Republic of) (Also applicable to land Berlin) Ghana 9 September 1958 9 September 1958 Greece Guatemala JO June 1951 30 June 1951 Haiti 16 April 1952 16 April 1952 Honduras Hungary Iceland India 10 February 19^9 3 June 1955 3 July 195$ Indonesia Iran Iraq 9 July 1954 9 July 1954 Ireland Israel Italy 29 April 1952 (with reservations) Japan J ordan, 12 December 1950 Hashemite Kingdom of the Korea Laos Lebanon Liberia Libya 30 April 1958 30 April 1958 Luxembourg 20 September 1950 20 September 1950 Malaya, Federation of Mexico Monaco А12/АБТ/12 page 4
Convention Annex VII
Country Accession First Revision Second Revision Third Revision
Morocco 10 June 1958 Nepal 23 February 1954 23 February 1954 Netherlands 2 December 1948 15 February 1951 New Zealand Nicaragua 6 April 1959 6 April 1959 Norway 2 5 January 1 9 5 0 14 September 195011 September 1957 Pakistan Panama Paraguay Peru Philippines 2 0 March I95O 12 March 1 9 5 9 Poland Portugal Romania Saudi Arabia Spain Sudan Sweden 12 September 1 9 5 1 12 September 22 August 1957 1951 Switzerland^- Thailand Tunisia 3 December 1957 3 3eaember 1957 19 May 1958 Turkey Ukrainian SSR Union of South Africa Union of Soviet Socialist Republics tftlited Arab Republic Province of Egypt 28 September 1954 28 September 3 February 1958 ______1 1954 In Switzerland privileges and immunities are conferred ©n WHO by the Agreemwcte between the Swiss Federal Council and WHO and the Arrangement for its execution. The Agreement and the Arrangement entered into force on 17 July 1948. A12/AFL/12 page 5
Annex
Convention Annex VII
Country Accession First Revision Second Revision Third Revision
Province of Syria United Kingdom of 16 August 1 9^9 22 September 1955 3 0 September 1957 Great Britain and Northern Ireland United Spates of America Uruguay Venezuela Viet Nam Yemen Yugoslavia 23 November 1951 23 November 1951 16 March 1959
The United States of America have enacted the International Organizations Immunities Act (Public Law 291 - 7 9 t h Congress) of 29 December 19^5• On 3 0 December 19^8, by Executive Order No. 10025, the President of the United States designated WHO as entitled to enjoy the privileges, exemptions and immunities conferred by the above-mentioned Act.