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Guyana accedes to WHO Tobacco Control Convention 

MINISTER of Foreign Affairs, Rudy Insanally, on behalf of the Government of Guyana deposited Guyana’s Instrument of Accession to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control at a recently concluded high level plenary meeting in New York.

The convention was the 60th session of the United Nations General Assembly which sought to provide a framework for tobacco control measures to protect present and future generations from the devastating health, social, environmental and economic consequences of tobacco consumption and exposure to tobacco smoke.

A release from the Foreign Affairs Ministry yesterday stated that the Minister also deposited the Instrument of Ratification to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.

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