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E-mail the USTR: action alert
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sanjay Basu)
Tue Nov 12 04:04:15 2002
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From: Sanjay Basu <sanjay.basu@balliol.oxford.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 08:55:48 +0000 (GMT)
To: utr-announce@mit.edu, peace-announce@mit.edu
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From: "access_camp" <access_camp@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 08:53:13 -0000
Subject: [ustr_action] E-mail the USTR
Please forward as appropriate:
Today, email Mr. Robert Zoellick, chief US trade representative and
ask him to actively support a solution to medicine access problems
which would allow developing countries to obtain affordable generic
versions of vital new medicines.
Sample e-mail:
_________________________
Robert B. Zoellick,
U.S. Trade Representative
600 17th Street NW
Washington D.C. 20508
rzoellick@ustr.gov
Dear Mr. Zoellick:
As an American citizen, I am deeply concerned that you have blocked
an equitable solution to generic drug access needs for developing
countries. I am asking that you follow the directive of the European
Parliament's recent statement on generic drug access, and stop
threatening countries that try to use public health safeguards
included in TRIPS. I also demand that you stop pushing TRIPS-plus
rules on other nations through agreements like the FTAA.
I am requesting that you provide me confirmation that at this week's
Sydney 'mini-ministerial' you are going to support a generic drug
access agreement that:
- is fair, permanent, and permits economically viable production
- is beneficial to all developing countries, and covers all health
products
- is quick and simple for developing countries to operate
- is free from extra WTO obligations on developing countries
I wish to know whether your proposals at the Sydney meeting will
provide a solution to medicine access by the agreed deadline of
December 2002, and whether your proposals are in line with developing
country proposals and the spirit and letter of the Doha Declaration.
I look forward to your reply.
Sincerely,
_______________
This campaign action is supported by ActionAids Alliance; Consumer
Project on Technology US; Health GAP, US; Health Action
International; Lawyers Collective' HIV/AIDS Unit, India; Medecins
sans Frontieres; Oxfam International; Thai NGO Coalition on AIDS and
Thai Network of People with HIV/AIDS; Third World Network; Treatment
Action Campaign, South Africa.
Background information:
http://www.msf.org/content/page.cfm?articleid=9BBC18B0-C765-4012-
956D1BC05DD00BFC
