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Leaked IP text presented as “take it or leave it” by WTO Secretariat

29 Mar 2022


Geneva, 28 Mar (TWN) — The World Trade Organization’s Director-General Ms. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is understood to be advocating for the rapid adoption of the leaked intellectual property text on the basis that “no one likes it”, cautioning WTO Members that unless this is agreed to, there will be nothing else.

More: https://twn.my/title2/wto.info/2022/ti220322.htm




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