Qatar Participates In Tobacco Control Meetings In Geneva
Date
4/19/2023 2:12:19 AM
(MENAFN- The Peninsula) QNA
Doha: Qatar participated in the third joint meeting of the elected offices of the 9th session of the conference of the Parties to the Global health Framework convention on Tobacco Control, and the second session of the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products, in addition to the third meeting of the general committee elected from the meeting of the parties.
All the meetings were held in Geneva, Switzerland.
Qatar was represented in the meetings by Dr. Kholoud Al Mutawa, Head of the Eastern Mediterranean Region Office for the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products, and the Head of the Non-Communicable Diseases Department at the Ministry of Public Health.
Qatar ratified the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products through the issuance of Amiri Decree No. 52 of 2018.
The protocol aims at eliminating all forms of illicit trade in tobacco products, often growing across borders, through a package of measures and policies taken by Qatar and the other member states for a global solution to this problem.
The protocol provides a comprehensive set of tools to address illicit trade in tobacco products and seeks to increase cooperation between government agencies in the country, with the close participation of the Ministry of Public Health, to discuss the implemented national policies and legislation in the country that undermine illicit trade policies.
Illicit trade in tobacco products poses a serious threat to public health because it increases the accessibility and affordability of tobacco products, thus fuelling the tobacco epidemic and undermining tobacco control policies in countries.
It also causes substantial losses in government revenues, and at the same time contributes to the funding of transnational criminal activities.
The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is the first international treaty negotiated under the auspices of WHO. It was adopted by the World Health Assembly on May 21, 2003 and entered into force on February 27, 2005. It has since become one of the most rapidly and widely embraced treaties in United Nations history.
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