44. The representative of Argentina said that her delegation had serious doubts about the effective operation of the system being proposed to Members in the Chairman's 16 December text and sought to find the true benefits which could derive from the proposal when Members balanced against the burdens and the restrictions involved. She said that her delegation had some concerns on this text, especially paragraph 6(2) regarding the desirability of harmonisation of intellectual property rights standards. However, after listening to the statements made by some Members, particularly the African Group, and humanitarian exhortations, her delegation had been ready to make its position more flexible and to lift its serious reservations and go along with the consensus that existed on the text. However, her delegation believed that the discussion on the scope of diseases had been closed in Doha and should not be re-opened. If the Council was going to re-open the discussion on this issue, her delegation would insist on some reservations it had put forward at the Council's meeting on 29 November 2002. These reservations included those on the differentiation made between least developed and other WTO Members, on information to be provided through notifications and on the legal mechanism.
