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4.
Recognize also the important role of the international community and
international cooperation in assisting Member States, particularly developing
countries, in complementing national efforts to generate an effective response to
non-communicable diseases;
5.
Reaffirm the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable
standard of physical and mental health;
6.
Recognize the urgent need for greater measures at the global, regional and
national levels to prevent and control non-communicable diseases in order to
contribute to the full realization of the right of everyone to the highest attainable
standard of physical and mental health;
7.
Recall the relevant mandates of the General Assembly, in particular resolutions
64/265 of 13 May 2010 and 65/238 of 24 December 2010;
8.
Note with appreciation the World Health Organization Framework Convention
on Tobacco Control, 1 reaffirm all relevant resolutions and decisions adopted by the
World Health Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable
diseases, and underline the importance for Member States to continue addressing
common risk factors for non-communicable diseases through the implementation of
the World Health Organization 2008–2013 Action Plan for the Global Strategy for
the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases 2 as well as the Global
Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health 3 and the Global Strategy to Reduce
the Harmful Use of Alcohol; 4
9.
Recall the ministerial declaration adopted at the 2009 high-level segment of
the Economic and Social Council, 5 in which a call was made for urgent action to
implement the Global Strategy for the Prevention and Control of
Non-communicable Diseases and its related Action Plan;
10. Take note with appreciation of all the regional initiatives undertaken on the
prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, including the Declaration of
the Heads of State and Government of the Caribbean Community entitled “Uniting
to stop the epidemic of chronic non-communicable diseases”, adopted in September
2007, the Libreville Declaration on Health and Environment in Africa, adopted in
August 2008, the statement of the Commonwealth Heads of Government on action
to combat non-communicable diseases, adopted in November 2009, the declaration
of commitment of the Fifth Summit of the Americas, adopted in June 2009, the
Parma Declaration on Environment and Health, adopted by the member States in the
European region of the World Health Organization in March 2010, the Dubai
Declaration on Diabetes and Chronic Non-communicable Diseases in the Middle
East and Northern Africa Region, adopted in December 2010, the European Charter
on Counteracting Obesity, adopted in November 2006, the Aruba Call for Action on
Obesity of June 2011, and the Honiara Communiqué on addressing noncommunicable disease challenges in the Pacific region, adopted in July 2011;
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2302, No. 41032.
Available at http://www.who.int/publications/en/.
3
World Health Organization, Fifty-seventh World Health Assembly, Geneva, 17–22 May 2004, Resolutions
and Decisions, Annexes (WHA57/2004/REC/1), resolution 57.17, annex.
4
World Health Organization, Sixty-third World Health Assembly, Geneva, 17–21 May 2010, Resolutions
and Decisions, Annexes (WHA63/2010/REC/1), annex 3.
5
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 3 (A/64/3/Rev.1),
chap. III, para. 56.
2
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