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Ambassador Boniface Chidyausiku (Zimbabwe)
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171. The Chairperson informed the Council that, on 31 May 2001, Lithuania had become the 141st Member of the WTO. Lithuania had committed itself to apply fully the provisions of the TRIPS Agreement by the date of its accession to the WTO without recourse to a transitional period. In accordance with the procedures for the review of national implementing TRIPS legislation which the Council had applied thus far in respect of newly acceded Members, he suggested that Lithuania be added to the list of Members whose national implementing legislation was scheduled to be reviewed in November 2001.
IP/C/M/32