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EB81/43

7 January 1988

EXECUTIVE BOARD

Eighty-first Session

Provisional agenda item 8,2

MEMBERS IN ARREARS IN THE PAYMENT OF THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO AN EXTENT WHICH WOULD JUSTIFY INVOKING ARTICLE 7 OF THE CONSTITUTION：

STATUS AS AT 1 JANUARY 1988

Report by the Director-General

In accordance with resolutions of the Health Assembly, the Director-General submits the following report on Members in arrears in the payment of their contributions in an amount which equals or exceeds the amounts due for the preceding two full years. As may be noted from the Annex, the number of Members involved is 21. As in the past, the Board may wish to request the Director-General to continue his contacts with these Members, and to submit his findings to the Committee of the Executive Board to Consider Certain Financial Matters, which will meet prior to the Forty-first World Health Assembly. This report should be read in conjunction with the report by the Director-General on the same subject, entitled "Past experience and possible future action" (document EB81/9).

Introduction

1. In May 1955 the Eighth World Health Assembly, in resolution WHA8.13, resolved that, "if a Member is in arrears in the payment of its financial contributions to the Organization in an amount which equals or exceeds the amount of the contributions due from it for the preceding two full years at the time of the opening of the World Health Assembly in any future year, the Assembly shall consider, in accordance with Article 7 of the Constitution, whether or not the right of vote of such a Member shall be suspended".

2. Pursuant to resolution WHA16.20 of the Sixteenth World Health Assembly (May 1963), the Executive Board, at its sessions when the agenda of the Health Assembly is prepared, is required "to make specific recommendations, with the reasons therefor, to the Health Assembly with regard to any Members in arrears in the payment of contributions to the Organization to an extent which would invoke the provisions of Article 7 of the Constitution".

3. In the same resolution, the Health Assembly invited those Members concerned to submit to the Executive Board a statement of their intentions as to payment in order to enable the Health Assembly, when it considered the matter in accordance with the provisions of resolution WHA8.13, to make its decision on the basis of the statements of such Members and the recommendations of the Executive Board.

A. Finally, under the terms of that resolution, the Director-General was requested to study their difficulties with the Members concerned and to report to the appropriate sessions of the Executive Board and the Health Assembly.

Members concerned

5. As at 1 January 1988, when this document was prepared, the following 21 Members were in arrears for amount s which equalled or exceeded their contributions for two full years prior to 1988; Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Kampuchea,

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Dominican Republic^ ^Equatorial Guinea, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Qatar, Saint Lucia, Sierra Leone, Suriname and the United Arab timirate日,^Tw6 <if these Members - Chad and the Dominican Republic 一 had not fulfilled the tonditions previously accepted by the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-third World Health Assemblies respectively qâù^erning the payment in instalments of consolidated arrears of contributions. The -voting rigfíts of the Dominican Republic have been suspended cm three previous occasions, by resolution WHA27.10, in 1975 by resolution WHA28.18, and in 1977 by resolution WHA30.12.

6. The number of Members in arrears as at 1 January 1988, as compared with previous years,

was as follows :

Year Number of Members concerned

1 January 1 January 1 January 1 January 1 January 1 January 1 January 1 January 1 January

1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988

6 6 4

15 14 18 19 21 21

7. The status of the arrears of contributions of the 21 Members concerned is as shown in

the Annex to this document.

Action taken by the Director-General

8. Following the adoption by the Fortieth World Health Assembly in May 1987 of resolution WHA40.5 relating to Members in arrears to an extent which would justify invoking Article 7 of the Constitution and resolution WHA40.2 relating to other Members,1 the Director-General communicated the text of resolution WHA40.5 to Burkina Faso, Comoros, Dominican Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Peru, Saint Lucia and Sierra Leone and the text of resolution V7HA40.2 to the other 11 Members, urging them to pay their arrears during 1987. Further communications were sent by the Director-General in September, October, November and December 1987 to the Members concerned.

Payments and communications received since the closure of the Fortieth World Health Assembly

9. Payments received since the closure of the Fortieth World Health Assembly (May 1987)

have been applied as follows:

Credited to Member Date Amount in US$

Grenada 28 September 1987 7 000

Liberia 16 June 1987 20 000

Nicaragua 25 June 1987 10 000

Saint Lucia 21 August 1987 9 202

3 6

September 1987 November 1987

8 9

304

722

9 November 1987 9 202

United Arab Emirates 22 June 1987 226 195

Contribution for 1985 (part)

Contribution for 1984 (balance) and 1985 (part)

Contribution for 1985 (part)

Contributions for 1983 (balance) and 1984 (part) Contribution for 1984 (part) Contribution for 1984 (balance) and 1985 (part) Contribution for 1985 (part)

Contribution for 1985 (part)

1

Document WHA40/1987/REC/1, pages 1 and 3.

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10. Since the closure of the Fortieth World Health Assembly the only communication received

from the Members concerned is a letter dated 10 December 1987 from the Government of Burkina

Faso informing the Director-General that the Finance Ministry had authorized payment of the

amount of CFA 18 325 000, being the equivalent of USÍ 67 870.37 at the January 1988 exchange

rate of CFA 270 = US$ 1 , and that urgent procedures were under way to settle the remaining

balance of contributions•

Proposed future action

1 1 . The Director-General will continue efforts to collect the unpaid arrears of contributions from the Members concerned. As in previous years, he proposes to report further on this matter to the Committee of the Executive Board to Consider Certain Financial Matters which will meet prior to the Forty-first World Health Assembly, to enable the Committee to formulate recommendations to the Health Assembly based on the status of these arrears at that time and the deliberations of the Executive Board on the report by the Director-General on the same subject, entitled "Past experience and possible future action" (document EB81/9).

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ANNEX

MEMBERS IN ARREARS IN THE PAYMENT OF THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO AN EXTENT

WHICH WOULD JUSTIFY INVOKING ARTICLE 7 OF THE CONSTITUTION

Status as at 1 January 1988

Members Amounts payable during

Total Members 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987

Total

US $ US $ US $ US $ US $ US $

Benin - - 5 7685. 24 575 24 570 54 913

Burkina Faso - 11 5 7 6 1 23 510 24 575 24 570 84 231

Cape Verde - - - 24 575 24 570 49 145

Chad - - 2 11 24

1 7 7 k

575 11

24

177b

570 74 414

Comoros 13 1 9 4 £ 23 510 23 510 24 575 24 570 109 359

Democratic Kampuchea - - 23 509£ 24 575 24 570 72 654

Dominican Republic

25 6 8 3 k 1 9 919ËL

25 6 8 3 k 70 540

25 70

6 8 3 k 540

25 73 W

00

Ul LO К

25 73

683b

705 436 854

Equatorial Guinea - 23 510 23 510 24 575 24 570 96 165

Grenada - - 7 873£ 24 575 24 570 57 018

Guatemala - 2 108£ 47 025 49 155 49 140 147 428

Guinea-Bissau - - 23 510 24 575 24 570 72 655

Liberia - - 23 3 6 7 £ 24 575 24 570 72 512

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya - - 3 090®L,Ç 614 425 614 235 1 231 750

Nicaragua 4 010色 24 575 24 570 53 155

Paraguay - - - 24 575 49 140 73 715

Peru - 500£ 164 585 172 040 171 985 509 110

Qatar - - • 73 735 98 275 172 010

Saint Lucia - - 11 108色 24 575 24 570 60 253

Sierra Leone - 9 630£ 23 510 24 575 24 570 82 285

Suriname - - 24 575 24 570 49 145

United Arab

Emirates — — 3 0 9 0 £ 393 230 442 245 838 565

a 一 Balance of contribution.

к Annual instalments payable by Chad and the Dominican Republic in accordance with

resolutions WHA37.6 and WHA33.7 respectively in respect of consolidated arrears of

contributions.

£. In addition, an amount of USj 1550 is due in respect of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya*s

additional advance to the Working Capital Fund.