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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8402
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/health

David Byrne confirms EU determination to negotiate convention framework at WHO in order to vigorously control tobacco

Brussels, 17/02/2003 (Agence Europe) - On 17 Februrary, the day that international WHO negotiations began again in Geneva to reach a framework convention on tobacco controls (negotiations must be concluded by 28 February), Davide Byrne, the European Commissioner for Health, stressed the importnace the Union attaches to these discussions and confirmed the major role that the Union intended to play. In a press statement he declared that, "health specialialists in the whole world are going to...

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