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I would like, first of all, to reassure Mrs Kinnock that I have no deviationist leanings of any sort, in particular with regard to the December compromise, which I was partially responsible for putting together.
I presented this proposal to consult the World Health Organisation, should this prove necessary, in January because I believe that the Americans are not on board on this matter. The US pharmaceutical industry considers that the arrangements in their current form still contain a number of loopholes and has no confidence that the system is going to be used for the purpose for which it was put on the table. A similar position is held by the developing countries, which also lack confidence and feel that the pharmaceutical industry in general will take every opportunity to take all the credit, as it has done, in their opinion, over the last few years.
The diagnosis is, therefore, clear. What we have on the table is a text with which we agree. The Americans do not agree with it because they do not have confidence in the system. We must consequently raise the level of confidence in the system on both sides and this is what we are working on. This must not be done, however, to the detriment of the compromise which is on the table on the subject of the diseases mentioned – a compromise which is in place and which we do not wish to go into now – or to the detriment of countries that could benefit from the measures set out in the agreement because they do not have their own pharmaceutical production capacity. The Perez Motta compromise, as the technical jargon has it, is the one on the table and this is the right approach. We simply have to increase both sides’ level of confidence in the system."@en1
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