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Mr. Gian Luca Burci

Mr. Gian Luca Burci
Legal Counsel
World Health Organization

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Health and Science
International Law and Infectious Disease Control
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(6/8/2008, 47 minutes)
Health and Science
International Law and Infectious Disease Control
A. Legal Instruments

Constitution of the World Health Organization, New York, 22 July 1946, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 14, p. 185.

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, New York, 16 December 1966, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 999, p. 171.

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, New York, 16 December 1966, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 993, p. 3.

Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction, Opened for signature at London, Moscow and Washington, 10 April 1972, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1015, p. 163.

Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident, Vienna, 26 September 1986, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1439, p. 275.

Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, Marrakesh, 15 April 1994, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1867, p. 493.

Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade, Marrakesh, 15 April 1994, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1868, p. 120.

B. Documents
World Health Assembly resolution 58.3 of 23 May 2005 (Revision of the International Health Regulations).

Economic and Social Council, Note verbale dated 24 August 1984 from the Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the United Nations Office at Geneva addressed to the Secretary-General, “Status of the International Covenants on Human Rights” (E/CN.4/1985/4).