WHO 22.05 2022

22 May 2022

Dear Journalists, 

Please find below the list of expected High Level Guests and draft scenario for the opening of the Seventy-Fifth World Health Assembly on Sunday, 22 May, at 14:00 CEST. The Assembly will be webcast live from the WHO website. The provisional agenda and Assembly documents can be accessed here.

HIGH LEVEL WELCOME OF THE SEVENTY- FIFTH
WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY

• 14:05  Opening remarks

       o   President of WHA74 – Minister of Health, Bhutan

• High Level Guests:

o   Mr Alain Berset – Conseiller Fédéral, Suisse

o    H.E Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi – President of Botswana

o   H.E Zoran Milanović – President of Croatia

o   H.E Luis Abinader Corona – President of the Dominican Republic

o   H.E Emmanuel Macron – President of France (virtual)

o   H.E Uhuru Kenyatta – President of Kenya

o   H.E  Sheikh Hasina Wazed – Prime Minister of Bangladesh (virtual)

o   H.E Alfredo Enrique Borrero Vega  – Vice-President of Ecuador

o   H.E  Antonio Guterres –  UN Secretary-General (virtual)

• Director General’s Remarks
   
• ‘Health Leaders’ Awards

     o   Dr Tedros to give an award to six individuals/groups for outstanding contribution            to global health

• 16:15 Close of the High Level Welcome

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