INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [62 STAT. Article 15 Date of meeting. The Board, after consultation with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, shall determine the date of each annual and special session. Article 16 Election of officers. The Health Assembly shall elect its President and other officers at the beginning of each annual session. They shall hold office until their successors are elected. Article 17 The Health Assembly shall adopt its own rules of procedure. Article 18 Functions. The functions of the Health Assembly shall be: (a) to determine the policies of the Organization; (b) to name the Members entitled to designate a person to serve on the Board; (c) to appoint the Director-General; (d) to review and approve reports and activities of the Board and of the Director-General and to instruct the Board in regard to matters upon which action, study, investigation or report may be considered desirable; (e) to establish such committees as may be considered necessary for the work of the Organization; (f) to supervise the financial policies of the Organization and to review and approve the budget; (g) to instruct the Board and the Director-General to bring to the attention of Members and of international organizations, gov- ernmental or non-governmental, any matter with regard to health which the Health Assembly may consider appropriate; (h) to invite any organization, international or national, govern- mental or non-governmental, which has responsibilities related to those of the Organization, to appoint representatives to par- ticipate, without right of vote, in its meetings or in those of the committees and conferences convened under its authority, on conditions prescribed by the Health Assembly; but in the case of national organizations, invitations shall be issued only with the consent of the government concerned; (i) to consider recommendations bearing on health made by the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council, the Security Council or Trusteeship Council of the United Nations, and to report to them on the steps taken by the Organization to give effect to such recommendations; (j) to report to the Economic and Social Council in accordance with any agreement between the Organization and the United Nations; k) to promote and conduct research in the field of health by the personnel of the Organization, by the establishment of its own 2684
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