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No intellectual property pact drawn up for Asia-Europe meet
CHIANG RAI. Thailand. Feb 15: Despite a request from the European Commission. no framework agreement on intellectual property rights has been prepared for next month's meeting of Asian and European leaders, a senior Thai trade official said Wednesday, reports AP.
Leaders of 10'Asian nations and the 15 countries of the European Union are to meet in Bangkok March 1-2 for their first summit. Trade and economic issues are expected to dominate the agenda.
The European Commission asked senior officials of seven Asian countries in De- . cember to try to prepare a framework agreement on intellectual property protection Ln time for the Bangkok meeting.
Weak or non-existing laws to protect patents, copyrights and other intellectual property, as well as tax enforcement. are a major concern of European and Ameri-
can companies doing business in most of Asia.
But a key organizer of the summit. Krirk-Krai Jirapaet of the Thal Commerce Ministry. said at a meeting of Southeast Asian trade officials that no such document had been prepared.
"A framework agreement is not easily don^T he said in an interview Wednesday.
Krirk-Krai, who heads the ministry's department of business economics, said no hard agreements on any subject were likely to come out of the Bangkok meetfrig. Instead. he said, the leader will focus on creating a ger eral atmosphere of cooper tion and leave actual agrei ments for later meetings.
The Europeans have been pursuing agreements with individual Asian countries as well as a collective pact. Han-soo Kim. director of the Europe division in South Korea’s Ministry of Trade. Industry and Energy, said his country is negotiating a
framework agreement with the EU that includes Intellectual property protection. The agreement should be signed in June, said Kim. who Is also attending the current meeting.
Krirk-Krai said the Asians and the Europeans have agreed to discuss three topics at their meeting — the strengthening of multilateral trade ties, boosting trade and investment, and Increased contact between Aslan European Businesses. The ,. topics have been left vagutje. the said, to give the leadena:.
udmum flexibility.
The emphasis, he said-, '! be on showing ’’a sign of •operation" rather than on attempting to resolve pending disputes between Europe and Asia. Other Asian officials attending the preparatory meeting here agreed.
This is a forum for cooperation. not a forum for negotiation." said Kim of South Korea.