More on Day 1, WIPO PCDA meeting

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Subject: [Upd-discuss] WIPO Development Agenda: First day of the
First PCDA
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:47:17 -0800
From: Judit Rius Sanjuan <judit.rius <at> cptech.org>
To: upd-discuss <at> lists.essential.org

The first meeting of the WIPO Provisional Committee for
Proposals  Related to a Development Agenda (PCDA) meets from 20
February to 24  February 2006 in Geneva and I am representing
Union for the Public  Domain this time.

New proposals from Chile 
<http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=55592>,
Colombia 
<http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=56472>,
United  States
<http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=56552> 
and the 15 countries of the Friends of Development 
<http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=56613>
Group  have been presented and hopefully will be discussed during
the following  4 days. Today, the countries' delegations
presented the different  proposals (including the African Group
Proposal from the 3IIM) and made  general statements. The
chairman, Ambassador Gauto from Paraguay, seems  committed to
force substantive discussions. Let's see if the US and the 
European Union allow him.

For the moment, the best coverage on the first day discussions