US embassy cable - 05VIENNA2557

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TRIPS AMENDMENT: AUSTRIA'S REACTION

Identifier: 05VIENNA2557
Wikileaks: View 05VIENNA2557 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Vienna
Created: 2005-07-29 14:31:00
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Tags: ECON KIPR AU WTO
Redacted: This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.

UNCLAS VIENNA 002557 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE PASS USTR FOR VESPINEL 
GENEVA FOR USTR 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ECON, KIPR, AU, WTO 
SUBJECT: TRIPS AMENDMENT: AUSTRIA'S REACTION 
 
REF: STATE 138784 
 
1. (SBU) On July 27, we conveyed reftel talking points to 
Gabriela Habermayer, Head of the Ministry of Economy's 
Department of Multilateral Trade.  We followed up with 
Habermayer on July 29.  Habermayer said that Austria favors 
re-starting negotiations on a legally binding health 
amendment to TRIPS because the waiver from 2003 could only 
be a temporary solution.  Habermayer claimed that the 
Commission's current draft for the TRIPS Council would make 
the wording of the Chairman's statement legally binding in 
any future amendment. 
 
BROWN# 

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