International cooperation for implementation of the WHO FCTC

Overview

Sixth session
Moscow, Russian Federation,13–18 October 2014
Provisional agenda item 5.2

This report has been prepared in accordance with decision FCTC/COP5(14), adopted by the Conference of the Parties (COP) at its fifth session (Seoul, Republic of Korea, 12–17 November 2012).

In that decision, the COP requested the Convention Secretariat, among other things: to continue to actively work in accordance with Article 24.3(e) of the Convention with relevant departments and offices of WHO in facilitating support by relevant stakeholders and development partners for implementation of the WHO FCTC to Parties in need; and to engage with WHO in convening annual meetings of the United Nations Ad Hoc Interagency Task Force on Tobacco Control and to facilitate within its mandate support to Parties in strengthening comprehensive, multisectoral national tobaccocontrol strategies, plans and programmes as called upon by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in resolution E/2012/L.18 on United Nations system-wide coherence on tobacco control.