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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8369

30 December 2002
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/wto/development
Supachai is disappointed by WTO's failure to agree on developing countries' access to drugs - BEUC appeals to Lamy

Geneva/Brussels, 30/12/2002 (Agence Europe) - The WTO Executive Council should turn its attention once again, at its meeting on 10 and 11 February 2003, to the issue of the developing countries' access to drugs they cannot manufacture themselves. Indeed, the 144 countries of the World Trade Organisation failed, on 20 December, to agree on the special treatment to be reserved for these countries, although they had undertaken to do so by the end of the year (see EUROPE of 11 December, page...

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