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Mr. Tony Miller (Hong Kong, China)
World Trade Organization
H DECISION ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PARAGRAPH 6 OF THE DOHA DECLARATION ON THE TRIPS AGREEMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH
219. Regarding the clarification sought by the representative of Rwanda on the asterisked note in document WT/L/540, a representative of the Secretariat clarified that this asterisked note was not part of the legal text of the Decision. Its purpose had been to provide factual information about the way the Decision had been adopted in the belief that this would be found helpful. If there were Members who did not find this information helpful in the text of the Decision as circulated, and maybe even found it confusing, one course of action might be to re-issue the Decision without this note. Of course, doing this would not affect the status of the Chairman's Statement and its link to the Decision; these were governed not by the note to document WT/L/540 but by the action that had been taken by the General Council at its meeting of 30 August 2003, as recorded in the minutes of that meeting.
IP/C/M/47