Practice question
A member declines to accept an Article 19 convention. Officials say this makes Article 20 irrelevant and eliminates every follow-up duty under the WHO Constitution. What does Article 20 actually require?
- Automatic imprisonment of the health minister
- Acceptance of every convention regardless of constitutional processes
- Action relative to acceptance within eighteen months, notification of the action, and reasons if not accepted within that period
- Only a campaign speech with no notification
- Automatic conversion into Article 23 recommendations
Legal references
- Constitution of the World Health Organization, Articles 19-23: https://apps.who.int/gb/bd/PDF/bd47/EN/constitution-en.pdf
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