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"Mr President, the next round of World Trade talks begins in Mexico next week. I have been nominated to act as a negotiator at these talks for the European Parliament. I certainly hope that the countries participating in these negotiations – including the European Union and the United States of America – come to an agreement on one very sensitive issue. There are 42 million people in the world who are sufferers of the AIDS virus – many of whom are based in Africa – yet the technology and the treatment is available to combat diseases such as AIDS. If developing countries can be given the right to distribute these much-needed medicines to their own people on their own licensing terms, then the costs of these medicines would be substantially reduced. There is now a growing political will to introduce changes to the international intellectual property rights system so that drugs to combat AIDS can be given to those countries which do not have the money to pay for them.
We all know what our responsibilities are when it comes to the issue of combating AIDS and we must act accordingly. A successful outcome to these negotiations would mean saving the lives of millions of people in the world. This round of trade talks must truly be a development round. Saving people's lives must always come before any doctrine on intellectual property rights."@en1
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