INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [62 STAT. affecting public health and medical care from preventive and curative points of view, including hospital services and social security; (q) to provide information, counsel and assistance in the field of health; (r) to assist in developing an informed public opinion among all peoples on matters of health; (s) to establish and revise as necessary international nomenclatures of diseases, of causes of death and of public health practices; (t) to standardize diagnostic procedures as necessary; (u) to develop, establish and promote international standards with respect to food, biological, pharmaceutical and similar prod- ucts; (v) generally to take all necessary action to attain the objective of the Organization. CHAPTER III MEMBERSHIP AND ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP Article 3 Membership in the Organization shall be open to all States. Article 4 Members of the United Nations may become Members of the Or- ganization by signing or otherwise accepting this Constitution in Post, p. 2694 . accordance with the provisions of Chapter XIX and in accordance with their constitutional processes. Article 5 The States whose governments have been invited to send observers to the International Health Conference held in New York, 1946, may become Members by signing or otherwise accepting this Constitution 'Pst, p. 26,. in accordance with the provisions of Chapter XIX and in accordance with their constitutional processes provided that such signature or acceptance shall be completed before the first session of the Health Assembly. Article 6 Subject to the conditions of any agreement between the United t, p. 2692. Nations and the Organization, approved pursuant to Chapter XVI, States which do not become Members in accordance with Articles 4 and 5 may apply to become Members and shall be admitted as Members when their application has been approved by a simple majority vote of the Health Assembly. Article 7 If a Member fails to meet its financial obligations to the Organiza- tion or in other exceptional circumstances the Health Assembly may, on such conditions as it thinks proper, suspend the voting privileges and services to which a Member is entitled. The Health Assembly shall have the authority to restore such voting privileges and services. 2682
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