[Pharm-policy] SA/Germany March 10, 1998 Cape Town meeting on SA Medicines Act

[James Love]

Rob Weissman has received under the US FOIA a cable from the Department
of State that describes a March 10, 1998 meeting between German
President Roman Herzog and then South Africa Deputy President Thabo
Mbeki, regarding intellectual property rights.  The cable appears to
have been based largely upon a March 11, 1998 report in Business Day, a
South African publication. 

http://www.bday.co.za/98/0311/news/n11.htm

This isn't much information in the cable or the Business Day story,
other than the fact that Herzog raised the issue of patent protection
for pharmaceuticals with Mbeki, and Herzog said he was "greatly
reasuured" by what Mbeki said.  The German intervention had been
mentioned in a Feb 5, 1999 US Department of State report on the South
African Medicines Act, but this cable gave us the date and a pointer to
the Bday story.  


Jamie


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