115. As other delegations, I would like to reaffirm Brazil's statements on these topics. As our position remains the same, I would like to seize this occasion to reaffirm our position on the importance of the predisposal of disclosure and benefit-sharing. We understand, as other delegations that have taken the floor before, that it would be very useful for the discussions that we have here in the TRIPS Council, that we could count on the support and guidance of the CBD Secretariat on the relationship between the IP agenda that we have here and those related to biodiversity.
116. We also understand that the existence of ongoing negotiations at WIPO should not be understood to preclude discussions on these topics at the TRIPS Council. The mere fact of reading the TRIPS Agreement, that makes reference to several of the topics that we also have at WIPO, means if those topics are in the TRIPS Agreement and they are also at WIPO there is no reason for them not to be also discussed here.
117. In this connection I would strongly encourage Members to fully engage in the preparatory work for the diplomatic conferences on genetic resources and intellectual property rights that is expected to take place early in the next year. This was a mandate that was given by the Nagoya Protocol and at that time the agreement that all Members had was that those discussions would have been dealt with at WIPO. Therefore, we are really positive on a final result on that at WIPO.