37. The representative of Brazil said that the adoption of the Declaration had been a landmark victory for all WTO Members, namely developed and developing country Members. In accordance with the mandate set out in the Declaration, his delegation had engaged in the discussion on the public health issue with great flexibility and was willing to join the consensus on the Chairman's 16 December text. However, the consensus could still not be achieved because of the difference in perception among Members over the Doha mandate. In his view, it was not in the purview of the Council to re-examine what had been agreed upon in the Declaration. In other words, the Council should work constructively to find a solution to public health problems in paragraph 6 of the Declaration rather than re-examining the scope of public health problems in the Declaration. The Council should not underestimate the possibilities that the Declaration had offered for the promotion of access to medicines for victims in many developing and least-developed countries, especially those suffering from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other epidemics.
