189. The representative of Brazil said that both his delegation and a number of other delegations had had problems in the past because the TRIPS Council and WIPO meetings had been scheduled to take place at the same time. This had created difficulties particularly for developing countries, which generally tended to have smaller delegations. He requested the WTO Secretariat to coordinate with WIPO when scheduling future meetings for the TRIPS Council, so as to ensure that meetings in the WTO and in WIPO were not scheduled to take place at the same time. Looking at the dates that had been suggested by the Chairman, he said that he was concerned about having a TRIPS Council meeting on 21-23 of September 2003, because usually at that time of the year the WIPO Assemblies took place.
