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Ambassador Dacio Castillo (Honduras)
Adoption of the agenda
22. The representative of Switzerland said that the proponents of the agenda item had fully ensured compliance with the procedural requirements. Furthermore, the title had already been adopted in October 2011. ACTA was not the enforcement trend but obviously one development in the sphere of enforcement trends. The purpose of the discussion would be to give further explanations, as ACTA had been the subject of a fair amount of discussion on Internet blogs and the press, and there had also been misleading and wrong information about it. Accordingly, he felt that it was his obligation to correct and rectify that information and provide answers that Members had posed in earlier Council meetings.
IP/C/M/69