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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8375

10 January 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade
Pascal Lamy initiative for jumpstarting negotiations for developing countries' access to medicines at WTO

Brussels, 09/01/2003 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday, Pascal Lamy announced that he had put a compromise paper on the World Trade Organisation's table in an effort to jumpstart the issue of developing countries' access to medicines. This initiative follows the failure of negotiations last December, due to the position of the USA (see EUROPE 30-31 December 2002 p 3). EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy believes that the most recent decision made by Washington with regard to access to medicines...

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