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Mrs Kinnock, the Commission shares your concern and your disquiet about the lack of an agreement that should have been concluded under the Doha declaration on the links between the TRIPs agreement on intellectual property and public health.
As you probably know, the current blockage is the result of the US refusal to accept a compromise proposal which has been on the table in Geneva since December 2002 and which has been accepted by all Members of the World Trade Organisation except the United States and this is precisely wherein the problem lies. Our position on this matter is simple: Doha, and nothing but Doha. The compromise text of last December and nothing but the compromise text. Recently, furthermore – last month, to be precise – we submitted a written communication to the TRIPs Council and thus to the WTO, to remind them of our proposals and to insist that technical assistance is provided. This will enable us, once the problem is resolved, to implement the
of the Doha declaration.
We also agree with the ACP countries’ view on the need to maintain the scope of the Doha declaration. We believe that the Doha mandate is a broad one and this is acknowledged in the text that has been on the table since last December. We have always maintained this position, and this is why we proposed, at the beginning of the year, to call on the World Health Organisation to re-establish confidence and to find a way out of the current impasse.
Our strategy remains the same. We want the Americans to accept the compromise text that has been on the table since December, without diminishing the scope of the text, where diseases are concerned. We will continue to make every effort to find a solution before the Cancun ministerial conference. A number of our friends in developing countries have intimated that, to some extent, unless agreement is reached on this point, everything that will be on the table in Cancun and, consequently, the outcome of the multilateral negotiations launched in Doha could be at risk. The issue is, therefore, one of our top priorities."@en1
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