Late morning at WIPO SCCR 24 meeting regarding the treaty for people with disabilities.
The US is asking now to go into “informal” discussions.
>> ZIMBABWE: …so far we have been making progress understanding each other’s proposal. So this suggestion to go in to informals what will be discussed in informals? Are you going to focus on those submissions that have been made earlier on because the document as far as I read this process we have not gone through the entire text. I know certain issues that are to be dealt with at a later to be dealt with in the first section. But I think makes sense that you complete the entire document, have all the inputs on the document, then people can break in to informal consultations to work on the language aspects and the technical issues to be discussed among Delegations. It would not make sense to break halfway the process because some Delegations feel uncomfortable to the way the discussions are heading. I said yesterday my constructive silence should not be misconstrued to ignorance. I have been observing carefully some Delegations even in their statement never make reference to a treaty. They just put statements. So let’s be clear with intention of some suggestions Mr. Chair transparence is key to everything. Everyone has the right to know who proposed what. The dynamics of the actual negotiations of the content of the document yes, we cannot all negotiate here. The respective proponents can sit down and negotiate the specific text but for the purposes of transparence we want to know who proposed what and who objected to what. But halfway process you go to informal consultations to consider what. Thank you.