Government of the Republic of Zambia

Zambia's Position on the WIPO Medium-Term Strategic Plan
(MTSP) for the period 2010 - 2015

September 2010

Zambia welcomes the WIPO Medium-Term Strategic Plan (MTSP) which it considers vital in defining the organization's strategic direction and ensuring a shared vision for its future.

The Plan is particularly critical as it will be the basis upon which WIPO resources will be expended during the biennium 2012/13 and 2014/15. For this reason, the Plan should be developed with due care and caution to ensure that it adequately and effectively responds to the diverse needs of the WIPO membership. From Zambia's point of view, as a developing country, the Plan should focus at addressing the gap between developed and developing countries in infrastructure for generating intellectual property assets. Zambia would urge that the Plan be skewed towards building capacity for generating of IP assets in member states such as ours.

In view of the above, Zambia would like the Development Agenda to be streamlined in the Plan. Our considered view is that the lack of capacity to generate IP explains the minimal use of international filling system like the PCT and the Madrid System. In the case of the Madrid system, it is a manifestation of lack of goods and services that can be marketed internationally - which takes us back to the question of capacity.

Further, the Plan does not seem to address itself to the rampant ills of copyright piracy and trademark counterfeiting. At the very least, WIPO is better placed, through its expertise, to assist countries in mapping out strategies for confronting these challenges. Equally, WIPO is in a unique position to bring members states together and collectively address these them, particularly where counterfeited and pirated products originate from across boarders.

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ОТЧЕТ ГЕНЕРАЛЬНОГО ДИРЕКТОРА НА СЕССИИ АССАМБЛЕЙ В 2010 Г.

Сентябрь 2010 г.

В настоящем отчете на сессии Ассамблей государств – членов Всемирной организации интеллектуальной собственности (ВОИС) в 2010 г. я хотел бы остановиться на ряде достижений Организации за последние 12 месяцев.

Это не всеобъемлющий отчет о ходе работы. Такую информацию вы можете найти в Отчете о реализации Программы. Цель же данного отчета – дать вам представление о масштабах и разнообразии деятельности ВОИС, а также охарактеризовать некоторые результаты, достигнутые в этом году.