Trade Representative Katherine Tai made the announcement.
United States President Joseph Biden has made it clear that after weighing all the pros and cons he was in favor of waiving intellectual property rights on anticovid-19 vaccine patents so that they can be produced faster and the world can finally overcome the current pandemic.
Trade Representative Katherine Tai made the announcement. This is a global health crisis, and the extraordinary circumstances of the covid-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures, she said in a statement.
The administration believes strongly in intellectual property protections, but in service of ending this pandemic, supports the waiver of those protections for COVID-19 vaccines. We will actively participate in text-based negotiations at the World Trade Organization needed to make that happen, she added.
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Russia’s Historical Markers and a Hampered Future
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 18 Issue: 39
A makeshift memorial to Boris Nemtsov on the bridge where he was killed (Source: PRI)
Early spring in Russia is a season of awakening from winter slumber and it is remarkably rich with hopeful historical markers. The notion of “thaw” is forever connected with the liberating death of Joseph Stalin on March 5, 1953, and the “secret speech” of Nikita Khrushchev to the 20
th Communist Party Congress three years later, when the “cult of personality” was denounced. Today, President Vladimir Putin may be busy building his own cult, but his address to the Federal Security Service (FSB), the organization that inherits the tradition of Stalin’s brutal all-penetrating control, betrayed his fears of uncontrollable shifts in Russian society (Svoboda.org, February 26; see EDM, April 21, 2020 and March 8, 2021). His particular worry spelled out in greater detail in the follo