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Ambassador Dacio Castillo (Honduras)
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
Adoption of the agenda
13. The representative of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela said that he was against including item N on the agenda. ACTA went far beyond the TRIPS Agreement and therefore should not be raised in the Council. It was difficult to carry out a transparency exercise with something that had started without transparency. Most importantly, ACTA was not part of the multilateral context.
IP/C/M/69