Provisional agenda
PLENARY
1. Opening of the Assembly1
Document A56/1
2. Reports of the Executive Board on its 110th and 111th sessions
Document A56/2
3. Address by Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General
Document A56/3
4. Director-General
Document EB111/2003/REC/1, resolution EB111.R17
4.1 Appointment
Document EB111/2003/REC/1, resolution EB111.R15
4.2 Approval of contract
Documents EB111/2003/REC/1, resolution EB111.R16, and A56/4
5. Admission of new Members and Associate Members [if any]
6. Executive Board: election
7. Awards
1 1.1 Appointment of the Committee on Credentials
1.2 Election of the Committee on Nominations
1.3 Reports of the Committee on Nominations
• Election of the President
• Election of the five Vice-Presidents, the Chairmen of the main committees, and establishment of the
General Committee
1.4 Adoption of the agenda and allocation of items to the main committees.
A56/1
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8. Reports of the main committees
9. Closure of the Assembly
ROUND TABLES
10. Round tables: Healthy environments for children
Document A56/DIV/4
COMMITTEE A
11. Opening of the Committee1
12. Programme budget
12.1 Proposed programme budget for 2004-2005
Documents PB/2004-2005 and A56/INF.DOC./1
Documents EB111/2003/REC/1, resolution EB111.R3, and A56/5
Document A56/6
12.2 Miscellaneous income 2002-2003
Document A56/7
13. Framework convention on tobacco control
Documents A56/8 and A56/INF.DOC./2
14. Technical and health matters
14.1 Tropical diseases, including Pan African tsetse and trypanosomiasis eradication campaign
Document A56/9
14.2 Control of neurocysticercosis
Document A56/10
14.3 WHO’s contribution to achievement of the development goals of the United Nations
Millennium Declaration
Document A56/11
1 Including election of Vice-Chairmen and Rapporteur.
A56/1
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14.4 WHO’s contribution to the follow-up of the United Nations General Assembly special
session on HIV/AIDS
Documents EB111/2003/REC/1, resolution EB111.R4, and A56/12
14.5 World Summit on Sustainable Development
Document A56/13
14.6 Smallpox eradication: destruction of Variola virus stocks
Document A56/14
14.7 Strategy for child and adolescent health and development
Documents EB111/2003/REC/1, resolutions EB111.R5 and EB111.R11, and
A56/15
14.8 WHO medicines strategy
Document A56/16
14.9 Intellectual property rights, innovation and public health
Document A56/17
14.10 Traditional medicine
Documents EB111/2003/REC/1, resolution EB111.R12, and A56/18
14.11 Strengthening nursing and midwifery
Document A56/19
14.12 Eradication of poliomyelitis
Document A56/20
14.13 Strengthening health systems in developing countries
Documents A56/21 and A56/22
14.14 Influenza
Documents EB111/2003/REC/1, resolution EB111.R6, and A56/23
14.15 Implementing the recommendations of the World report on violence and health
Documents EB111/2003/REC/1, resolution EB111.R7, and A56/24
A56/1
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14.16 Revision of the International Health Regulations
Documents EB111/2003/REC/1, resolution EB111.R13, and A56/25
14.17 Elimination of avoidable blindness
Document A56/26
14.18 International Conference on Primary Health Care, Alma-Ata: 25th anniversary
Document A56/27
14.19 Joint FAO/WHO evaluation of the work of the Codex Alimentarius Commission
Document A56/34
COMMITTEE B
15. Opening of the Committee1
16. Financial matters
16.1 Reports
• Unaudited interim Financial report on the accounts of WHO for 2002 and comments
thereon of the Administration, Budget and Finance Committee
Documents A56/28, A56/28 Add.1 and A56/47
• Interim report of the External Auditor
Document A56/29
• Report of the Internal Auditor
Document A56/30
16.2 Appointment of the External Auditor
Document A56/31
16.3 Status of collection of assessed contributions, including Members in arrears in the
payment of their contributions to an extent which would justify invoking Article 7 of the
Constitution
Document A56/32
1 Including election of Vice-Chairmen and Rapporteur.
A56/1
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16.4 Special arrangements for settlement of arrears
Document A56/33
16.5 Assessment of new Members and Associate Members [if any]
Document EB111/2003/REC/1, decision EB111(3)
16.6 Assessments for 2004-2005
Documents A56/35 and A56/INF.DOC./3
Document EB111/2003/REC/1, decision EB111(3)
16.7 Amendments to the Financial Regulations and Financial Rules [if any]
17. Assignment and transfer of Member States to regions
17.1 Assignment of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste to the South-East Asia Region
Document A56/36
17.2 Reassignment of Cyprus from the Eastern Mediterranean Region to the European Region
Document A56/37
18. Staffing matters
18.1 Human resources: annual report
Documents A56/38 and A56/39
18.2 Representation of developing countries in the Secretariat
Document A56/40
18.3 Increased representation of developing countries on Expert Advisory Panels and in Expert
Committees
Document A56/41
18.4 Amendments to the Staff Regulations and Staff Rules [if any]
Document EB111/2003/REC/1, resolution EB111.R10
18.5 Report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board
Document A56/42
A56/1
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18.6 Appointment of representatives to the WHO Staff Pension Committee
Document A56/43
19. Health conditions of, and assistance to, the Arab population in the occupied Arab
territories, including Palestine
Documents A56/44, A56/INF.DOC./4, A56/INF.DOC./5 and A56/INF.DOC./6
20. Collaboration within the United Nations system and with other intergovernmental
organizations
Document A56/45
21. Policy for relations with nongovernmental organizations
Documents EB111/2003/REC/1, resolution EB111.R14, and A56/46