Special session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe
10–11 May 2022 (virtual)
In a letter dated 28 April 2022, signed by 43 WHO Member States from the European Region, the WHO Regional Director for Europe Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge was requested to convene a special session of the Regional Committee for Europe to consider the health situation in Ukraine and the wider consequences of the ongoing war on health matters in the region and beyond.
The Regional Committee is the highest decision-making body of the 53 Member States of the WHO European Region. It normally meets once a year to shape the political commitment to improving the health and health conditions of the people living in the European Region and to guide the action undertaken by the WHO Regional Office for Europe.
This request for an urgent special session is triggered under Rule 5 of the Rules of Procedure of the Regional Committee, which provides the possibility to convene the Regional Committee within thirty days at the request of at least eight Member States.
The Regional Director, in close consultation with the President of the 71st session of the Regional Committee for Europe and the members of its Standing Committee, is calling Member States from the European Region to meet virtually on 10-11 May.
