Brussels, 06/05/2003 (Agence Europe) - At the extraordinary Council in Brussels on Tuesday evening, European Union health ministers discussed with WHO director general Gro Harlem Brundtland developments in the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) outbreak that is plaguing several countries in Asia. They also discussed the WHO Framework Convention to cut smoking (see below).
In the conclusions it adopted on Sars, the Council laid emphasis on the fact that only a small number of people in...