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At UN,
Antibiotics
Resistance
Discussed But
Not Patent
Abuse, CAR
& Paris
Silence
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 16 --
With
antibiotic
resistance the
subject of a UN
press
conference
by Dr.
Nata Menabde,
Executive
Director of
the World
Health
Organization
Office in New
York and the
UK's
Ambassador to
the UN Matthew
Rycroft on
November 16,
one expected
to hear about
the role of
patents, or at
least about
India - but
no.
While Menabde
criticized
without name
countries
which don't
sufficient
regulate
antibiotic,
the high cost
enforced by
corporate
intellectual
properties
regimes was
not mentioned.
So Inner City
Press
asked.
Manabde
responded
about systems
not ensuring
access to
well- licenced
personnel.
It's not a
matter of the
pharmaceutical
companies
alone, she
said. But
isn't it, to
some degree?
The
press
conference
began and
ended with
refer to the Paris
Attacks.
The UK mission
to its credit
said
antimicrobial
questions
first, but the
turn was soon
taken by CBS,
if Rycroft
foresees a
Security
Council
resolution on
the Paris
Attacks.
We are in the
hands of our
French
colleagues,
Rycroft said
again, adding
there would be
a moment of
silence in the
Security
Council at 3
pm.
As the
morning's
Security
Council
session began
at 11 am, two
countries'
ambassadors
told the Press
there is no
plan yet for a
Security
Council
resolution.
The topic of
the 11 am
meeting was
the Central
African
Republic, so
Inner City
Press asked UN
Peacekeeping
chief Herve
Ladsous as he
went in if
there is any
update on the
allegations
against
peacekeepers
there of
sexual abuse.
Ladsous, as
is his way,
Vine
here, did
not answer at
all. UN
Spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric, when
Inner City
Press asked
the same
question at
the noon
briefing, said
there is no
update. And so
it goes at the
UN.
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