World Health Organisation Recommendations
The suggestions that the Association has put forward for appropriate national measures concerning donations or low-price supplies of infant formula are appreciated. To the extent that resources permit, WHO intends to consider them, together with various other proposals that have been made for relevant guidelines. It is considered that the underlying principles governing relevant national measures should include clear definitions, which are communicated to and understood by all parties; transparent monitoring and reporting procedures to determine whether alleged violations contravene national measures; and a monitoring authority established under government responsibility. It is hoped that this long-standing and unusually contentious issue can be resolved rapidly. It is to be expected that all parties have grasped the central lesson from this experience: that it is only through proper dialogue, entered into in good faith, that disputes of this magnitude and duration can be satisfactorily resolved so that resources can continue to be used to good effect.
Paragraph 151, Report by the Director-General to the 47th World Health Assembly, May 1994 Infant and Young Child Nutrition.
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