Dear Marijan,

Thank you very much for your support.

We will send you the presentation no late then 17 January.  We also planning to bring materials for all participants for Georgia side event.

Dear Sopo,

Attached please find slightly modified scenario for the briefing on Wednesday 24 January.

We inserted some time after the minister’s presentation, to allow some immediate quick questions/reflections.

I do not expect any substantial changes at this stage.

We will need presentation to be able to upload it and to print handouts. Preferably it should be sent to us latest on Wednesday, 17 January, morning.

WHO Regional Office for Europe might also bring some materials that will be available for the participants (not Georgia specific, but focused on work with the member states).

There will be a table at the entrance where materials can be put and everyone can collect them.

Optionally they can also be put on the desks in the meeting room.

Please, do not hesitate to contact me in case you need any further information.

Best regards,

Dear Marijan,

Thank you for the information you provided.

Please be informed that the Minister will do presentation by himself.  As I understood from your previous email we should expect approximately 30 participants on Georgia side event and WHO will organize all logistical issues regarding mentioned event (invitation of participants and other logistical issues), am I right?   Do you have more detailed scenario for this event?

As for the meetings, Dr. Sergeenko will attend both of them - a lunch hosted by the Regional Director planned for Monday, 22 January and the briefing on technical topics on  Sunday, 21 January at 15:00. Could you be so kind and send me details regarding this two events.

As I mentioned in my previous email the Minister with Georgian delegation will attend EB sessions from 22nd of January till 24th of January. We have flight back to Georgia on 25th. But the representatives of Permanent mission of Georgia to the UN Office and other international organizations in Geneva will attend  the rest days of EB sessions.

Dear Sopo,

(I also copy Prof Amiran (who has called today to learn some details about logistics), and my colleague Rusiko).

I was in touch with the reginal office and this is to confirm that Prof. Amiran’s travel can be covered by WHO Europe (Tuesday, 23 – Thursday, 25 January; 2 per diems + return ticket Tbilisi-geneva).  Our office is working on his travel authorization (Irina).

We expect the travel costs for the minister to be covered by the WHO Headquarters. Unfortunately we have no funds available to cover the costs of travel for the other two members of the delegation.

The provisional programme of the session on country work looks as follows:

Above is just provisional programme, as it needs to be cleared by the regional office/RD, but I do not expect any changes

In any case it means that both presentations given at the SCRC need to be shortened, and shall only focus on key issues. At the same time the focus of both presentations can remain the same as it was (so no need for change in the content, but they should be much shorter).

Dear Prof Amiran, if needed, we can meet in the following days, and discuss the details of the presentation. In principle the focus shall be on what are the main historic achievements of Georgia in the area of health, what are the current priorities and challenges.

I will work on my presentation in the following days and will be able to share it with you latest on Monday (15 Jan) early morning.

Finally, I would highly recommend that the minister attends a lunch hosted by the Regional Director (for the 8 EB members) planned for Monday, 22 January (the invitation will be sent to the minister soon).

The briefing on technical topics is planned for all EURO delegations for Sunday, 21 January from 15:00. All EB members are much encouraged to participate because the Regional Director and senior management share first-hand fresh information from Director General, but it is on the minister, to decide, if he can attend in person, or he will be represented by somebody else. In any case this briefing can be very useful for contributing to the discussions of the EB.

 Hopefully the above answers to all your questions.

Best regards,

Dear Marijan,

Please be informed that the Minister with the rest of delegation (Amiran Gamkrelidze, Sofiko Belkania, Mariana Mkurnali) will attend EB (first half, on 25th of January we are planning to have flight back to Tbilisi) and Georgia side event.  Should the Minister attend the above mentioned events on 21^st and 22^nd of January?

I wonder if you received detailed scenario for the event focused on Georgia.  Could you be so kind and tell me if  WHO will cover travel expenses for the rest of delegation?

Looking forward for your answer.

Dear Sopo,

As discussed please find below information regarding the meeting of the EB:

·         Sunday, 21 January from 15:00 a briefing on technical topics, this is for all EURO delegations, and EB members are much encouraged to participate because the Regional Director and senior management share first-hand fresh information from Director General

·         Monday, 22 January the Regional Director plans to have a lunch with the 8 EB members, this is a working lunch with European EB members and EURO senior management, discussion is on technical matters, again an opportunity to get information directly from the Regional Director

·         Wednesday, 24 January, 13.00-14.30; the Georgia side event;

For the minister the most interesting part of the meeting will be the first half, while the last days, Georgia could be represented by somebody else.

At the moment I have no detailed scenario for the event focused on Georgia. I think I will only be able to send that information in early January.

Best regards,

Marijan Ivanusa

WHO Representative

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