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FM HONG KONG
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OF 111104Z MARCH 91
1997
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MY 2ND IPT: IRO SUB-GROUP: MULTILATERAL TREATIES: HEALTH.
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1 THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH REGULATION (''IHR' TEXT AT ANNEX A) ADOPTED BY THE TWENTY-SECOND WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY ON 25 JULY 1969 REPRESENTS A REVISED AND CONSOLIDATED VERSION OF PREVIOUS INTERNATIONAL SANITARY CONVENTIONS, REGULATIONS AND SIMILAR AGREEMENTS LISTED IN ARTICLE 86 IHR. THE IHR HAS BEEN AMENDED TWICE SINCE 1969 THE FIRST TIME BY THE TWENTY-SIXTH WORLD
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HEALTH ASSEMBLY IN 1973 AND THEN BY THE THIRTY-FOURTH WORLD
HEALTH ASSEMBLY IN 1981.
2. THE OBJECTIVE OF THE IHR IS TO ENSURE ''THE MAXIMUM SECURITY AGAINST THE INTERNATIONAL SPREAD OF DISEASES WITH A MINIMUM INTERFERENCE WITH WORLD TRAFFIC''.
3. PART II OF THE IHR PROVIDES, INTER ALIA, THAT EACH CONTRACTING PARTY, THROUGH ITS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, SHALL NOTIFY THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO) WITHIN 24 HOURS OF ITS BEING INFORMED OF THE OCCURRENCE IN ITS TERRITORY OF A DISEASE SUBJECT TO THE IHR I.E. CHOLERA, PLAGUE AND YELLOW FEVER. ARTICLES 3-9 SET OUT IN DETAIL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLICABLE TO SUCH NOTIFICATIONS. THE WHO MAY, WITH THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNMENT CONCERNED, PROVIDE ASSISTANCE BY DEPLOYING EXPERTS TO INVESTIGATE AN OUTBREAK OF DISEASE SUBJECT TO THE IHR (ARTICLE 11.3). PART III PROVIDES THAT CONTRACTING PARTIES SHALL, THROUGH THEIR HEALTH ADMINISTRATIONS, ENSURE THAT PORTS AND AIRPORTS WITHIN THEIR TERRITORY HAVE A RESPONSIBLE ORGANIZATION AND THE NECESSARY EQUIPMENT FOR THE APPLICATION OF THE MEASURES PROVIDED FOR IN THE IHR. PART IV SETS OUT THE MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE HEALTH MEASURES WHICH A CONTRACTING PARTY MAY APPLY TO INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC.
PART V IS A LIST OF SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO EACH OF THE THREE DISEASES. OTHER PROVISIONS PERTAINING TO, FOR EXAMPLE,
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