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INDIA SAYS TRIPS AND PUBLIC HEALTH A HUMANITARIAN ISSUE.

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NEW DELHI, Sept 1 Asia Pulse - India on Friday said TRIPS (trade-related intellectual property rights) and Public Health were not commercial but humanitarian issues which should be resolved in a manner that ensures availability of cheap medicines to poorer nations.

"We will go with what the African nations want on the issue of TRIPS and Public Health... We will support them on this. For us it is not a commercial issue but a humanitarian one," S N Menon, Additional Seceratry, India's Ministry of Commerce, said at a seminar on WTO organised by Federation of Indian Chembers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and and the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) here.

He said India's interest in the issue was that of a responsible Government to see that the poor ...

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