105. The representative of Switzerland recalled that, as indicated in document TN/C/W/52, 110 WTO Members had proposed specific modalities language for the three TRIPS issues. He reaffirmed the importance his delegation attached to the three TRIPS issues and their parallel treatment, in view of a modalities decision and the need for text-based negotiations on the three issues on the basis of the parameters established in document TN/C/W/52. In order to succeed in the challenge of forging a broad consensus for a modalities decision, he said that Members should strive for a balanced package, of which the three TRIPS issues were part. He said that the three TRIPS issues had been put on the agenda by more than two thirds of the WTO membership, and therefore WTO Members should undertake urgent work on these issues. Although he noted that this work was not for the regular session of the TRIPS Council, he reiterated that the three TRIPS issues concerned the subject-matter of the TRIPS Agreement, for which the TRIPS Council was responsible.
