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

Ambassador Karen Tan (Singapore)
United States of America
I TECHNICAL COOPERATION AND CAPACITY-BUILDING
81. The representative of the United States emphasized the US interest in engaging with developing and LDC Members to support their efforts to implement the provisions of the TRIPS Agreement. She recognized Brazil's continuing interest in the issue of technical cooperation. The US report on its technical cooperation activities provided a detailed overview of its efforts to work together with its trading partners to provide assistance and her delegation would update it for the Council's next meeting. Referring to Brazil's submission relating to the WIPO Committee on Development and Intellectual Property and the recommendations that it had been asked to implement, she said that the United States had been highly involved in the Committee and would continue to do so in order to contribute to its continued success. To date, the Committee had only had a few meetings and was still in its formative stages. The Committee was working with the WIPO Secretariat to establish proper and necessary steps to implement each of the adopted recommendations, including programme and budgetary issues related to implementation. Those recommendations expressly concerned the work of WIPO, and many of them did not make sense outside that context, since they concerned the core mission, responsibilities, capabilities and resources of WIPO. It would be inappropriate to consider outside that context how they should apply to WIPO's activities, particularly since the Committee was at the nascent stages of addressing its task of implementation.
IP/C/M/60