201. The representative of the United States said that she recognized Brazil's continuing interest in technical cooperation. The US report on its implementation of Article 67 provided a detailed account of its efforts to work together with its trading partners to provide assistance. Referring to Brazil's paper concerning the WIPO Committee on Development and Intellectual Property and the recommendations that this Committee had been tasked to implement, she said that the United States had been highly involved in this Committee and its negotiations and would continue to be so in order to contribute to its continued success. The Committee had had only a few meetings so far and was working with the WIPO secretariat to establish the proper and necessary steps to be taken to implement each of the adopted recommendations. These recommendations expressly concerned the work of WIPO. Many did not make sense outside that context as they concerned the core mission responsibilities, capabilities and resources of WIPO. To presuppose, outside the working and functioning of the Committee, how those recommendations should apply to WIPO and its activities was highly inappropriate, particularly as the Committee was at the nascent stages of addressing its task of implementation.
