Ambassador Mero (United Republic of Tanzania)

Egypt

13 The United Nations Secretary-General's High-Level Panel Report on Access to Medicines

611. We would like to thank Brazil, India, China and South Africa for proposing this item on the agenda of our meeting today. As raised by the four countries, the report of the United Nations Secretary-General High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines contains a very important recommendation for both developing countries and LDCs. Therefore, we urge the TRIPS Council to start studying the way to implement those recommendations especially the one regarding the proposed cooperation between the UNCTAD, UNDP, WIPO and WTO in order to support the governments to apply public health-sensitive patentability criteria.

The Council took note of the statements made and agreed to take the matter up as an ad hoc agenda item at its next meeting.

70. The Chairman said that Brazil, China, India and South Africa had requested that this item be added to the agenda. They had submitted a communication that briefly introduced the item, circulated in document IP/C/W/619.

71. The representatives of India, Brazil, South Africa, China, Ecuador, Egypt, Indonesia, Bangladesh, the Russian Federation, the United States, Canada, the European Union, Chile, Australia, Switzerland, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Plurinational State of Bolivia and Norway took the floor.

72. The representatives of the Holy See, WHO, UNCTAD, and UNAIDS took the floor.

73. The representative of the Secretariat took the floor.

74. The Council took note of the statements made and agreed to take the matter up as an ad hoc agenda item at its next meeting.

IP/C/M/83, IP/C/M/83/Add.1