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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8519

6 August 2003
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/wto

05/08/2003 (Agence Europe) - In Monday's edition of Libération, European Commissioner for Trade, Pascal Lamy, launched an appeal to the USA to agree to the derogations worked out by the 145 Member States of the WTO, "all developing countries and Europe at their side" in order to introduce exemptions to the rule on copyright rules in urgent health emergencies to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. Returning from the WTO in Montreal, Mr Lamy (see EUROPE 1 August p 3), affirmed, "The WTO is...