DHAKA: The six-day long annual conference of World Health Organization (WHO) passed the resolution, proposed by Bangladesh on autism, unanimously at Geneva in Switzerland on Friday. 

Health Minister Mohammad Nasim led the Bangladesh delegation at the conference. 

Bangladesh placed the resolution last year that received immediate board approval.

The annual assembly is the supreme decision-making body of WHO that passes such resolutions.

Delegations from 194 countries joined in the conference. 

BDST: 1003 HRS, MAY 23, 2014