<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<META content="MSHTML 5.50.4522.1800" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV>Meet Seeks Jt 3rd World Front Against Biopiracy<BR>ASHOK B
SHARMA<BR>FINANCIAL EXPRESS<BR>NEW DELHI, APRIL 8<BR><A
href="http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=56667">http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=56667</A><BR><BR>The
two-day second conference on biotechnology for Asian development [held in New
Delhi, India, April 7-8] has expressed concern over the "asymmetric" global
intellectual property rights<BR>(IPRs) regime which has failed to protect
traditional knowledge from biopiracy. The gene-rich developing countries need to
guard against any form of biopiracy, the conference, that ended here on Thursday
said.<BR><BR>The conference also emphasised on regional cooperation for
promoting biotech, capacity building and biosafety related issues on priority
basis.<BR><BR>The conference was organised by the New Delhi-based NGO Research
and Information System for the Non-Aglined and Other Developing Countries (RIS)
in collaboration with CII and IUCN Regional Biodiversity Programme and supported
by UNESCO and the Indian government.<BR><BR>After the conclusion of the meet RIS
director-general Nagesh Kumar said, "there is an asymmetric treatment by the
global regime for IPR protection of<BR>knowledge resulting from modern
innovation systems vis-a-vis the products of traditional knowledge system and
biodiversity that actually represents the work of the generation of farmers."
<BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
size=2>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR>"Wir brauchen keine
Bio-Terroristen, wenn wir Gentechniker haben."<BR>Independent Science Panel (<A
href="http://www.indsp.org">www.indsp.org</A>; dt.Ü. <A
href="http://www.indsp.org/ISPgerman.pdf">www.indsp.org/ISPgerman.pdf</A>)</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>