Nations United met off the coast of destroy the last virus of smallpox

Geneva - health everywhere in the world, the Ministers agreed Tuesday to put off setting a deadline to destroy the last known stocks of virus of smallpox for three more years, rejecting a U.S. plan which called for a period of five years.

After two days of heated debate, the world the 193-nation Health Assembly agreed by consensus to a compromise that calls for a further review in 2014.

The United States had proposed an extension of five years to destroy the stocks American and Russian, arguing that other necessary research and stocks could help prevent one of the deadliest diseases in the world being used as a biological weapon.

But other Ministers in the decision-making Assembly of the World Health Organization said they saw little reason to conserve stocks and objected to the delay in their destruction.

Dr. Nils Daulaire, head of the U.S. Office of Global Health Affairs and the American delegate leader in the Assembly, has expressed some disappointment but said that the compromise was satisfactory.

"Three years is a reasonable period of time of the next revision", he told journalists. "It is clear that during this period of time, we anticipate there will be significant progress in research on antivirals and vaccines and diagnosis."

The Assembly declared smallpox officially eradicated in 1980, and the United Nations health agency has been discussed, whether to destroy the virus since 1986.

Then in 2007, the Assembly asked who is Director-General to oversee a thorough review of the situation so that the 2011 Assembly can agree on the destroy the last known stocks.

WHO officials said in a statement that the Assembly "strongly reaffirmed the decision of previous assemblies that remaining stocks of smallpox (variola) virus" should be destroyed in critical research based on the virus have been completed. ""

But the Assembly will once again faced with a decision over just when that up to three years from now.

The Assembly, as the General Assembly of the United Nations, is a global forum whose decisions are not legally binding, but moral weight. Therefore even if the Assembly has finally fixed a date for the destruction of stocks, it cannot force the United States and the Russia to comply.