Actas - Consejo de los ADPIC - Ver detalles de la intervención/declaración

Ambassador Carlos Pérez del Castillo (Uruguay)
G TECHNICAL COOPERATION
42. The representative of Japan, while referring to Japan's technical cooperation activities as outlined in document IP/C/W/154/Add.1, said that in the area of human resource development, Japan had undertaken the 1000 Trainees Programme. The target of this program was to invite a total of 1000 people from governments and the private sector, mainly from the Asia-Pacific region, to Japan to participate in training courses. From 1996 to the end of 1998, a total of 739 participants had been accepted from 34 countries and one economy. His government had been providing several countries with necessary personnel and computer equipment in order to build up computerised operation systems in industrial property offices. Finally, he stressed that Japan had been and would be willing to provide necessary cooperation to developing countries to the extent it could with a view to having self-sustained development in these countries.
IP/C/M/25