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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2009
Executive Board
The fifteenth session of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) was held in Geneva from January 18 to February 4, 1955, under the chairmanship of Dr. H. Hyde (United States). The Director-General's proposals for the provisional agenda of the eighth World Health Assembly, as amended, were approved by the Board. The Board recommended that the Assembly adopt the revised rules of procedure, which the Board had re-examined and amended in the light of comments received from governments. The Board also noted that it had carried out a study of the procedure for consideration of the annual program and budget by the Assembly, in accordance with the Assembly's request, and that it believed it would be useful for the Assembly committee on program and budget to set up a working party at the beginning of each Assembly session to make a review of the financial and budgetary aspects of the proposed program and budget estimates. Proposals relating to the establishment of committees and their terms of reference were also made to the eighth Assembly.
1 For information on this and other questions referred to the Board by the seventh WHO Assembly, see International Organization, VIII, p. 394—397.
2 For information on the decision to hold the conference, taken at the ninth session of the General Assembly, see ibid., IX, p. 64–67.
3 World Health Organization, Official Records … No. 60, Part III.
4 For information on these changes, see International Organization, IX, p. 102–105.
5 World Health Organization, Official Records … No. 60, Part I; for information on the fourteenth session of the Executive Board, see International Organization, VIII, p. 586–587Google Scholar.
6 World Health Organization, Official Records … No. 59, p. v–xGoogle Scholar.
7 For a resolution of the WHO Executive Board on this matter, see above, p. 286.
8 Chronicle of the World Health Organization, IX, p. 25; for information on the first WHO Asian Malaria Conference, see International Organization, VIII, p. 272.
9 United Nations Press Release H/1216, March 28, 1955.
10 Ibid., H/1218, April 7, 1955.
11 Chronicle…, cited above, p. 26–27.
