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WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE LA SANTÉ WELTGESUNDHEITSORGANISATION ВСЕМИРНАЯ ОРГАНИЗАЦИЯ ЗДРАВООХРАНЕНИЯ Date: 9 December 2022 REGIONAL OFFICE FOR EUROPE Ms Elen Ohov BUREAU RÉGIONAL DE L’EUROPE REGIONALBÜRO FÜR EUROPA Adviser ЕВРОПЕЙСКОЕ РЕГИОНАЛЬНОЕ БЮРО European Union Affairs and International Co-operation Department Head office: Ministry of Social Affairs UN City, Marmorvej 51, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark Suur-Ameerika 1 Tel.: +45 45 33 70 00; Fax: +45 45 33 70 01 10122 Tallinn Email: [email protected] Website: https://www.who.int/europe Estonia Our reference: WHO/GDO Notre référence: -124-2022 Unser Zeichen: См. наш номер: Dear Ms Ohov, The ninth edition of the WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic To support countries in developing and strengthening tobacco control policies and ensuring healthy lives and well- being for all at all ages, WHO initiated in 2008 a series of WHO reports on the global tobacco epidemic. Each successive report has tracked the status of the tobacco epidemic and the interventions introduced to combat it. We have completed the data collection for the ninth edition of the report and would like to share our analysis of the data with countries. This provides you with an opportunity to check the country information to be published in the upcoming report and to raise any possible concerns. To this end, we would be grateful if you could indicate who in the Ministry of Health would be authorized to sign off on the country data for the global report. We would then contact the person with more details concerning the process. We kindly ask you to provide the following information: • the name of the person authorized to sign off on the country data • their email address Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Ms Elizaveta Lebedeva, WHO Consultant, Tobacco Control (email: [email protected]), who has daily responsibility for this activity. It would be greatly appreciated if you could provide Ms Lebedeva with the required information by 20 January 2023. We would like to thank you for your collaboration and contributions to the WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic. Sincerely yours, Dr Nino Berdzuli Director Division of Country Health Programmes UN City, Marmorvej 51 Tel.: +45 45 33 70 00 Email: [email protected] DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Fax: +45 45 33 70 01 Website: https://www.who.int/europe Denmark Copy for information to: Ms Triin Uusberg, Head, European Union Affairs and International Co-operation Department, Ministry of Social Affairs, Suur-Ameerika 1, 10129 Tallinn, Estonia H.E. Ms Katrin Saarsalu-Layachi, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Estonia to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva, Chemin du Petit-Saconnex 28A, CH-1209 Genève, Switzerland H.E. Mr William Mart Laanemäe, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Republic of Estonia, Frederiksgade 19, 4th floor, 1265 Copenhagen K, Denmark Ms Kristina Köhler, Liaison Officer, WHO Country Office, Estonia, Paldiski Road 81, 10617 Tallinn, Estonia –2– Saatja: STEPANOVA, Alena <[email protected]> Saadetud: 17.12.2022 09:40 Adressaat: Elen Ohov <[email protected]> Koopia: Triin Uusberg <[email protected]>; SM Info <[email protected]>; Ms K. Saarsalu-Layachi <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; Kaisa.Mitt-Alvarez <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; KÖHLER, Kristina <[email protected]>; CIOBANU, Angela <[email protected]>; Lebedeva, Elizaveta <[email protected]> Teema: The ninth edition of the WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic/Request for nomination of a national focal point to sign off on the country data for the global report Dear Ms Ohov, On behalf of Dr Nino Berdzuli, Director, Division of Country Health Programmes at WHO Regional Office for Europe, we are pleased to share with you the letter, requesting for nomination of a national focal point in the Ministry of Health who authorized to sign off on the country data for the global report. We kindly ask you to provide the following information: the name of the person authorized to sign off on the country data their email address It would be greatly appreciated if you could provide Ms Lebedeva with the required information by 20 January 2023. We would like to thank you for your collaboration and contributions to the WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic. Thank you, Best regards, WHO European Office for Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases Alena Stepanova Programme Assistant WHO European Office for Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD Office)