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OPENING ADDRESS |
Opening address by Dr Lee Jong-wook, Director-General, World Health Organization
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Welcome to the Sixth Global Conference on Health Promotion, entitled Policy and Partnership for Action: Addressing the Determinants of Health.
I would like to thank our co-host, the Ministry of Public Health of the Kingdom of Thailand for the excellent preparations they have made. I would also like to thank the many participants who have travelled here for this eventmore than 700 from over 100 countries. Your presence and your discussions here this week will bring great strength to our common global effort to improve the health of all people, especially the