*ND£x e d~ A23/AFL/1 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION 20 March 1970 шШш ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE LA SANTÉ TWENTY-THIRD WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY 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 UNITED NATIONS Name of country Date of deposit of formal instrument of acceptance 1. MAURITANIA 26 October 1965 2. ZAMBIA 22 November 1965 3. MADAGASCAR 26 November 1965 4. TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 2 December 1965 5. IVORY COAST 6 December 1965 6. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 13 December 1965 7. GUINEA 22 December 1965 8. RWANDA 5 January 1966 9. DAHOMEY 2 February 1966 10. GHANA 9 February 1966 11. SIERRA LEONE 3 March 1966 12. BURMA 8 March 1966 13. TUNISIA 9 March 1966 14. YUGOSLAVIA 29 March 1966 15. UPPER VOLTA 6 May 1966 16. NIGER 9 May 1966 17. INDIA 10 May 1966 18. KUWAIT 11 May 1966 19. ALGERIA 27 May 1966 20. SYRIA 2 June 1966 21. NIGERIA 30 June 1966 22. SENEGAL 7 July 1966 23. PAKISTAN 8 July 1966 24. UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC 20 July 1966 25. UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA 17 August 1966 26. ETHIOPIA 19 September 1966 27. MALI 18 October 1966 28. AFGHANISTAN 16 November 1966 29. MOROCCO 2 March 1967 30. SAUDI ARABIA 26 May 1967 31. COSTA RICA 15 June 1967 32. PERU 20 June 1967 33. BARBADOS 3 July 1967 34. CAMEROON 5 September 1967 35. PHILIPPINES 20 November 1967 36. LEBANON 5 February 1968 37. IRAQ 12 February 1968 38. MALDIVES 10 July 1968 39. MAURITIUS 8 April 1969 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 October 1967 3. PERU 18 October 1967 4. MADAGASCAR 19 October 1967 5. SAUDI ARABIA 9 November 1967 6. DENMARK 20 November 1967 7. SWITZERLAND 5 December 1967 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 January 1968 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 May 1968 18. CANADA 24 May 1968 19. NETHERLANDS 7 June 1968 20. UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND 19 June 1968 21. UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC 26 July 1968 22. LAOS 29 July 1968 23. MALI 6 August 1968 24. BRAZIL 8 August 1968 25. GHANA 30 August 1968 26. YUGOSLAVIA 3 September 1968 27. NIGER 4 September 1968 28. CZECHOSLOVAKIA 4 September 1968 29. MEXICO 6 September 1968 30. SWEDEN 9 September 1968 31. AUSTRALIA 14 October 1968 32. MALDIVES 2 December 1968 33. BURMA 27 February 1969 34. MAURITIUS 8 April 1969 35. TURKEY 15 August 1969 36. CYPRUS 24 November 1969 37. TOGO 29 December 1969 38. SIERRA LEONE 26 January 1970 39. AUSTRIA 10 February 1970 40. FRANCE 24 February 1970 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION A23/AFL/1 Add.1 ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE LA SANTÉ 7 May 1970 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 Spain have accepted the amendments to Articles 24 and 25 of the Constitution on 9 and 21 April 1970 respectively, thus bringing the number of acceptances to 42..