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Ambassador Choi Hyuck (Korea)
J TRANSITION PERIOD FOR LEAST-DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; REQUEST FOR EXTENSION
243. The Chairman said that, by means of a letter dated 13 October 2005, the Ambassador of Zambia, on behalf of the LDC Members of the WTO, had informed him that the LDC Group intended to make a formal submission to the TRIPS Council requesting an extension of the transitional period under Article 66.1 of the TRIPS Agreement, and asked that this request be put on the agenda of the present Council meeting. A communication from the delegation of Zambia on behalf of the least-developed country Members of the WTO had subsequently been circulated as document IP/C/W/457. This communication contained a request for an extension of the transitional period under Article 66.1 for a further 15 years. He recalled that there had already been some discussion on this matter at the Council's informal meetings on 20 and 25 October.
IP/C/M/49