“The ITGA hereby kindly and respectfully requests that you workout your authority, as Secretary General of the United Nations and father or mother of the UN Charter, to ensure that the FCTC fulfils its obligations underneath the Charter and operates in an inclusive and obvious way, “ITGA President Francois van der Merwe and CEO Antonio Abrunhosa wrote in a letter dated September 21, 2016.
They noted the group’s “deep situation” over the WHO-FCTC plan to prohibit dozens of “appointed and elected officers” from the govt, legislative and judicial branches of tobacco-growing nations from collaborating inside the subsequent CoP7 of the WHO-FCTC in November.
They consider this is in direct contravention of Article 2 of the UN Charter, which states that “[t]he Organization is based at the precept of the sovereign equality of all its Members.”
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