Special session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe: summary and outcome

The virtual special session, moderated from WHO/Europe in Copenhagen, Denmark, was called by Ukraine and 42 other Member States, including all 27 European Union Member States. The main focus of the special session was a draft resolution proposed by 38 Member States with 3 key requests:

  • for the Regional Director to explore options to safeguard the work of the WHO European Office for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD Office), including through its relocation to an area outside the Russian Federation;
  • for the Regional Director to consider temporarily suspending all regional meetings in the Russian Federation; and
  • for the WHO Director-General to prepare a dedicated report for consideration at the upcoming Seventy-fifth World Health Assembly, assessing the health emergency in Ukraine and related international health risks as well as proposed responses.

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