Israel Strives to Implement WHO Demands

Source from:  tr.itsmyiq.com Feb 11, 2008 02/13/2008

Israel is struggling to implement the requirements of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, partly because it has found some of the convention's requirements unclear. Health Ministry spokeswoman, Einav Shimron-Greenberg, was reported by the Jerusalem Post to have said that the government was doing the best it could with the available resources to improve implementation of the convention, and that it planned eventually to implement all parts of the convention. "Specifically, we are now looking for ways to carry out the demand for setting a national policy," she said. "Regarding most of the instructions, including the six strategies, it is not black-and-white, and one can always do better. For example, when raising taxes, when is what a country does considered full implementation?" Shimron-Greenberg was responding to a Jerusalem Post initiative in which it sent to her an Internet link to last week's WHO report, which included information about Israel's failure to implement many of the convention's clauses. Enditem