525. The representative of Brazil said that the present agenda item had been put on the proposed agenda as "Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (Paragraph III of the TRIPS Agreement)", but the discussion had not been about the TRIPS Agreement or enforcement overall. Instead, ACTA participants had presented that agreement and encouraged other Members to sign it. The WTO was a multilateral forum, and ACTA was a plurilateral agreement that had been deliberately negotiated outside the WTO. He voiced his delegation's concern regarding plurilateral agreements being advocated in a multilateral forum such as the WTO and shifting focus away from its multilateral nature.
