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May.25.2021
On May 21, 62 WTO member states[1] submitted a revised proposal on a waiver from certain provisions of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement. This revised proposal follows the original proposal from India and South Africa in October 2020. Earlier this month, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai had issued a statement announcing the Biden-Harris Administration’s willingness to “actively participate in text-based negotiations at the World Trade Organization” regarding a waiver for COVID-19 vaccines (see prior client alert).
As stakeholders look ahead to WTO negotiations on a potential TRIPS waiver, the revised proposal is significant in at least three respects.
The president of Bolivia, detained in Europe
When Edward Snowden exposed the United States’ sprawling surveillance apparatus, European leaders responded cautiously. Yet they didn’t hesitate to act when it came to capturing Bolivian president Evo Morales’s plane when they suspected it was carrying the fugitive intelligence consultant. by Evo Morales
On 2 July 2013, there occurred one of the most egregious moments in the history of international law: the presidential plane of the Plurinational State of Bolivia was prohibited from flying over French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese territories, then I was detained at the Vienna airport (in Austria) for fourteen hours.