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WTO Pursues Discussion On IPRs And Access To Medicines
Repeating the scenario of their June meeting on access to essential medicines (see BRIDGES Weekly, 26 June 2001, http://www.ictsd.org/html/weekly/26-06-01/story1.htm), WTO Members again set aside one full day of the 19-21 September Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) Council for discussions on the TRIPs Agreement and access to medicines. Other issues addressed in regular…
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Developing Countries Advocate New Negotiating Areas At WTO
Twelve developing countries from the Like Minded Group (LMG) circulated on 18 September a set of ‘non-trade related’ initiatives they are pushing to have included on the agenda for the Fourth Ministerial Conference in Doha, Qatar, currently scheduled for 9-13 November. Clarifying items previously touched on in the leadup to the failed Seattle Ministerial Conference in…
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Implementation Becoming Lynchpin Of Ministerial Process
Implementation Becoming Lynchpin Of Ministerial Process At a brief 20 September meeting of the WTO’s General Council (GC), WTO Members were informed by GC Chair Stuart Harbinson that he intended to circulate a draft Ministerial text by the end of this week (28 September). The text would be distributed at around the same time as a…
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African Ministers Convene On Trade Priorities In Preparation For Doha
The Fourth Ordinary Session of the Organization of African Unity (OAU)/AEC Conference of Ministers of Trade was held from 19-23 September in Abuja, Nigeria. The aim of the meeting was to review global trade and development initiatives to ensure that they adequately address African development priorities, particularly with a view to realising the objective of…
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Revised Draft Annex On Tourism Services Tabled; Many Developing Countries Still Sceptical
Revised Draft Annex On Tourism Services Tabled; Many Developing Countries Still Sceptical The Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panama, and Peru on 24 September issued a revised Draft Annex to the WTO’s General Agreement on Trade In Services (GATS) on Tourism (see BRIDGES Weekly, 27 February 2001, http://www.ictsd.org/html/weekly/story3.27.02.01.htm). This…
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GMO Roundup
Novartis Discontinues Use of GMOs in Food Production Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis has stated publicly its intention to discontinue the use of GMOs in its own food products. In a letter sent to the Greenpeace International office in Belgium, the company has said that, “With the current sentiment among the population towards GMOs, we have decided…
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In Brief
EC-CIVIL SOCIETY POLICY DIALOGUE WITH LAMY CLARIFIES EC STANCE ON DOHA. Convening for the last time before the WTO’s Ministerial Conference in Doha, Qatar in November, civil society and business groups met with EC Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy last week to discuss the state of affairs on preparations for the Doha Conference. According to Lamy,…
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Events
For a more comprehensive list of events in trade and sustainable development, please refer to ICTSD’s web calendar at: http://www.ictsd.org/html/calendar.htm. Coming Up This Week 26-28 September, Geneva, Switzerland: EXPERT MEETING ON ELECTRONIC COMMERCE AND INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT SERVICES. A UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) meeting which addresses "the impact of electronic…
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Resources
If you have a relevant resource (books, papers, bulletins, etc.) you would like to see announced in this section, please forward a copy for review by the BRIDGES staff to Hugo Cameron, hcameron@ictsd.ch. Submissions of publications to ICTSD’s documentation centre would also be welcome (contact Marc Galvin, mgalvin@ictsd.ch). TRIPS, BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES AND PUBLIC HEALTH. Published by…