HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.C.R. NO.

137

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002

H.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

  
   

HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

supporting congress's plan to endorse and obtain observer status for taiwan at the annual summit of the world health assembly in may 2002 in geneva, switzerland.

 

 

WHEREAS, the World Health Organization was established in 1948 as a worldwide body dedicated to the "health of all" and now consists of 191 member-states; and

WHEREAS, the World Health Assembly is the supreme decision-making body for the World Health Organization, and holds an annual meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, with delegations from all member-states; and

WHEREAS, Taiwan has been denied membership in the World Health Organization, even merely as an observer, mostly due to resistance by the People's Republic of China; and

WHEREAS, Taiwan's population of 23,500,000 people, which is larger than that of three-quarters of the member states already in the World Health Organization, is being denied access to the critical health information that is available to members of the World Health Organization; and

WHEREAS, this is particularly critical in an age when the threat of bioterrorism is quite real, and when diseases may be spread throughout the globe in less than 24 hours; and

WHEREAS, the United States Congress plans to endorse and obtain observer status for Taiwan at the 2002 Annual Summit of the World Health Assembly; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-first Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2002, the Senate concurring, that the Legislature supports Congress's plan to endorse and obtain observer status for Taiwan at the Annual Summit of the World Health Assembly in May 2002 in Geneva, Switzerland; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the President of the United States, Hawaii's Congressional delegation, the U.S. Secretary of State, Director General of the World Health Organization, and Director General of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Honolulu.

 

 

Report Title:

WHO; Taiwan