The Seventieth World Health Assembly was held at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, from 22 to 31 May 2017, in accordance with the decision of the Executive Board at its 139th session.¹ The theme for the general discussion in plenary meetings was “Advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: building better systems for health”.²

The officers of the Health Assembly were:

Outgoing President of the Sixty-ninth World Health Assembly:

Dr Ahmed Mohammed Al Saidi (Oman)
 

President of the Seventieth World Health Assembly:

Professor Veronika Skvortsova (Russian Federation)
 

Vice-Presidents:

Mr Nandi Tuaine Glassie (Cook Islands)
Dr Fawziya Abikar Nur (Somalia)
Dr Arlindo Nascimento do Rosario (Cabo Verde)
Mr Patrick Pengel (Suriname)
Mr Choe Myong Nam (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea)

The verbatim record contains the record of proceedings during the 10 plenary meetings of the Health Assembly. The digital recording of the meetings includes the interventions made by each speaker, in the original language of delivery.

In addition, the summary records of the work of Committee A and Committee B are provided in document WHA70/2017/REC/3 and the resolutions and decisions are provided in document WHA70/2017/REC/1, in addition to other relevant material. For a list of abbreviations used in these volumes, membership of the Health Assembly committees, the agenda and the list of documents for the session, please see the preliminary pages of document WHA70/2017/REC/1.

¹ Decision EB139(11) (2016).
² See document A70/DIV./2.
 

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