A/RES/64/108
United Nations
Distr.: General
19 February 2010
General Assembly
Sixty-fourth session
Agenda item 123
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 10 December 2009
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/64/L.16 and Add.1)]
64/108. Global health and foreign policy
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 63/33 of 26 November 2008, entitled “Global health
and foreign policy”,
Recalling also the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and
summits in the economic, social and related fields, especially those related to global
health,
Recalling further that achieving the health-related Millennium Development
Goals is essential to socio-economic development, concerned by the relatively slow
progress in achieving them, and mindful that special consideration should be given
to the situation in sub-Saharan Africa,
Noting the adoption by the World Health Assembly on 24 May 2008 of its
resolution 61.18, 1 by which it initiated its annual monitoring of the achievement of
the health-related Millennium Development Goals,
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Recalling its resolutions 58/3 of 27 October 2003, 59/27 of 23 November 2004
and 60/35 of 30 November 2005, all entitled “Enhancing capacity-building in global
public health”, the resolutions of the World Health Assembly, in particular
resolution 60.28 of 23 May 2007 2 and resolution 62.10 of 22 May 2009, 3 both
entitled “Pandemic influenza preparedness: sharing of influenza viruses and access
to vaccines and other benefits”, and resolution 62.16 of 22 May 2009, entitled
“Global strategy and plan of action on public health, innovation and intellectual
property,3
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Noting the contribution of the High-level Forum on Advancing Global Health
in the Face of Crisis, which took place at United Nations Headquarters on 15 June
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1
See World Health Organization, Sixty-first World Health Assembly, Geneva, 19–24 May 2008,
Resolutions and Decisions, Annexes (WHA61/2008/REC/1).
2
See World Health Organization, Sixtieth World Health Assembly, Geneva, 14–23 May 2007, Resolutions
and Decisions, Annexes (WHASS1/2006-WHA60/2007/REC/1).
3
See World Health Organization, Sixty-second World Health Assembly, Geneva, 18–22 May 2009,
Resolutions and Decisions, Annexes (WHA62/2009/REC/1).
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