56. The representative of Thailand said that his delegation attached great importance to the disclosure issue, as well as to GIs and the other implementation related issues. Contractual arrangements, as had been proposed in the previous meetings of the TRIPS Council, could not, in his view, solve the problem of biopiracy, nor did they safeguard genetic resources from being exploited outside the country of origin. The recent submissions explained in detail the disclosure issue. He said that the disclosure issue should not be dealt with only in the WTO, but also in other fora such as the WIPO and UNCTAD. The exercise at the WTO was to find a solution to this problem, as mandated by the Ministers at Doha.
