Minutes - TRIPS Council Special Session - View details of the intervention/statement

Chairperson: Ambassador Dacio Castillo, Honduras
1 NEGOTIATIONS ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A MULTILATERAL SYSTEM OF NOTIFICATION AND REGISTRATION OF GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS FOR WINES AND SPIRITS
1.10. The representative of Haiti, speaking on behalf of the LDC Group, said the LDC Group wished to indicate it was in the process of studying the submission TN/C/W/52, dated 2008, including the issue of the GI register under TRIPS Article 23.4. It noted that the work had been extended to spirits pursuant to positions taken in 1996 at the Singapore Ministerial Conference and codified at the 2001 Doha Declaration. 1.11. He said that it should be of no surprise to Members that LDCs were surveying their interests across a number of areas in a manner to enhance LDC industries, value addition and industrialization. Regardless of the framework of deliberations or negotiations in the WTO, the LDC Group, he added, must assess areas of importance to their sectors and industries. 1.12. He said that the Group expected its internal consultative process would allow it to come forward with a common position of the LDCs Group. In this regard, the LDCs Group supported the continuation of the negotiations in the framework of the TRIPS Special Session.
The Special Session took note of the statements made.
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