Address of Ms. Snezhanna Chichevalieva, Public Health Officer, WHO Regional Office for Europe and former Chair of the SEE Health Network Executive Committee:
" Dear National Health
Coordinators,
Dear Members of the Executive
Committee,Dear Representatives of the Partners,
Allow me to express my
gratitude for your contribution to the overall process of sub-regional
cooperation in health in South East Europe and in the SEE Health Network that has brought it to this point of the
Inauguration of the Seat of the SEEHN Secretariat in Skopje, republic of Macedonia on the 7th of
March, 2013.
I commend you for the success of the event. I also sincerely thank the
Ambassadors of the SEEHN Member States who were present at the event , that have
given it a high level international profile, thus, making the SEE commitment to further develop SEEHN as a health diplomacy tool a reality.
I, hereby, inform you that Ms. Zsuzsanna Jakab, Director of WHO Regional Office for Europe with her high level delegation ,
has met the President of the State, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, and, of course, the Minister of Health, thus expressing WHO support to
the SEEHN, but also acting as the SEEHN Ambassador. We are most grateful to
Mrs. Zsuzsana Jakab for this extraordinary and continuous support to the SEEHN
and innovative approach to partnerships in health. Further aligning SEEHN
sub-regional policy with the European Health 2020 and especially the SEEHN Health 2020 implementing
plan, were stressed as a priority for further SEEHN actions both by the SEEHN
Member States at the event and by the SEEHN Executive Committee at their
meeting.
We are grateful that at those
high level meetings of WHO RD with country leadership, an understanding and
support has been expressed to the SEEHN and its Secretariat' further
strengthening.
We express our appreciation
for the host country efforts, and especially Minister of Health, Mr. Todorov
for investing in the SEEHN (Secretariat) and organizing such an successful
event.
I would also wish to thank our
people at the Secretariat: Mr. Jovica Andovski, Deputy Minister of Health
(Acting Head of the Secretariat) and Mrs. Sanja Sazdovska and Aleksandar
Kacarski, the MoH MKD seconded persons for their extraordinary efforts and huge
work done in organizing this huge event. They were brilliant.
The Secretariat will now proceed
with its regular activities, which are quite of a number and a scope, as
discussed at the Executive Committee meeting on the 7th March (back to back
with the round table), but with your support, I have no doubt of the results
that we will achieve.
We have got a clear message
by our ExeCom to focus on :
- providing sustainable
development of the SEEHN and collect member states contributions (as per
MoU 2009 and amendments 2011) not later than the end of Moldova Presidency
(30 June, 2013)
- providing for increased
visibility of our efforts through adopting both the SEEHN Communication
Strategy and develop contemporary tools for communication and exchange
- Developing the SEEHN
H2020 Action plan.
- Mobilize our partners to
work with the SEEHN on concrete actions (Many thanks to HPH (Hanne),
Project HOPE (Katerina) and our new partner aboard the SEEHN: Center for
regional research and cooperation in the SEE -Studiorum (Neda) that have
been working on the 7th and 8th March together at a concrete program,
together with Maria (Ruseva) that we will be all presented at the SEEHN
June 2013 Plenary meeting in Moldova)
- Mobilize further
resources to support the SEEHN 2013 agenda (Thank you Alex (Berlin) for
working (on the 6th and 8th of March) with SEEHN RHDC in Skopje and with
MNE delegation in this direction.
The photo album will be shared
with you shortly. For now, please find enclosed the press clipping to inform
you of the excellent and very positive media coverage of the event, despite of
ongoing process of local elections in the country.
With my best regards, Snezhana"
.jpg)
See the video clip of the Macedonian Information Agency at:
No comments:
Post a Comment