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Volume #18 - 380. | |||
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CHAPTER IV INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES | |||
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PART
1 UNITED NATIONS SPECIALIZED AGENCIES | |||
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SECTION
D WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, FIFTH ASSEMBLY, MAY 5-22, 1952 | |||
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DEA/5475-K-10-40 | ||
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Memorandum from Deputy Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs to Secretary of State for External Affairs | |||
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CONFIDENTIAL |
Ottawa,
April 21st, 1952 | ||
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FIFTH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY | |||
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The Minister of National Health and Welfare thinks that Canada should be prepared to accept membership on the Executive Board of WHO if nominated, but that we should not actively seek the nomination. If Canada is elected, Dr. Leroux of National Health will be available to represent Canada at the sessions of the Executive Board. In any event, Dr. Leroux will be available to attend each of the WHO Assemblies and will be responsible in the Department of National Health for all WHO matters. Dr. Cameron14 has asked us to notify the U.K. and the U.S. of our position as the elections to the Executive Board will take place al the Fifth World Health Assembly which opens in Geneva on May 5. It would be of assistance to us al the same time to try to find out from the U.K. and U.S. what other candidates there might be for election to the Executive Board. Our Delegation in New York has been notified of Iran's candidature to succeed Turkey.
2. Preliminary discussions have already been held between officials of this Department and of the Departments of National Health and Finance to draft instructions for the Canadian Delegation to the Fifth World Health Assembly. It was agreed to recommend that this year's instruction on the question of "inactive members" should be the same as last year's. Last year you approved an instruction to the Canadian Delegation suggesting that it support any motion which would recognize the withdrawal of the ten "inactive members" of WHO (Albania, Bulgaria, Byelo-Russia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Roumania, the Ukraine, the U.S.S.R. and Nationalist China). The Canadian Delegation was further instructed that if this course proved unacceptable to the Assembly, it might urge that "inactive members" be not assessed for 1952 and support any other measure likely to improve WHO's financial position (see para. 5 of our memorandum to you dated April 27, 1951, attached). The Fourth World Health Assembly failed to take any action to change the present situation whereby the "inactive members" are assessed, do not pay their contributions, and the "working budget" is a great deal smaller than the "paper budget". 3. Attached for your approval, if you agree, are telegrams to London and Washington informing them of our position on the question of Canada becoming a member of the Executive Board, asking for information on other candidates, and seeking the views of the U.K. and U.S. on the question of the "inactive members", al the same time reiterating the Canadian position on this subject.? E. R[EID]
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