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WIPO Director General Visits the Arab Republicof Egypt

Geneva, July 18, 2000
Press Updates UPD/2000/104

The key role of the intellectual property system in promoting economic, cultural and social development was the focus of a meeting between WIPO Director General, Dr. Kamil Idris and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt during a two-day visit to Cairo on July 15 and 16, 2000. In the course of their talks, the Director General and the Egyptian leader agreed on the importance of strengthening the intellectual property system in Egypt and the Arab region as a whole. Dr. Idris applauded the Egyptian Government for its leadership and commitment to intellectual property protection both at the national and regional levels.

Dr. Idris also met with other senior Government officials including the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Amre Moussa, and the Minister for Supply and Internal Trade, Dr. Hassan Khedr, to review current bilateral technical assistance programs and to discuss future activities. Particular emphasis was placed on supporting efforts to automate and modernize national intellectual property operations.

In talks with the Minister for Higher Education and State Minister for Scientific Research, Dr. Mufeed Shehab, the Director General pledged the Organization's continued support in the areas of human resource development and public awareness campaigns to generate a broader understanding of the intellectual property system. In this regard, he outlined specific training activities to be undertaken with the WIPO Worldwide Academy and reaffirmed WIPO's continued support of the Cairo University's Post-graduate Specialized Diploma Degree in Intellectual Property. Discussions also covered the organization of a workshop on the protection of traditional knowledge, genetic resources and expressions of folklore. These issues are of relevance to countries like Egypt that are endowed with a rich cultural heritage and biological diversity.

With the Minister of Communication and Information, Dr. Ahmed Nazif, the Director General outlined possible WIPO assistance to support efforts in further developing the software industry in Egypt. Dr. Idris also met with the Chairman of the Regional Information Technology and Software Engineering Centre, Dr. Hisham El Sherif, to discuss the implementation of an on-line museum project designed to safeguard the intellectual property rights associated with the commercial exploitation of the digital assets of the Egyptian Museum.

A meeting with the Secretary General of the League of Arab States, Dr. Ahmed Esmat Abdel Meguid, was marked by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to institutionalize and strengthen the existing cooperation between the two Organizations. This MOU includes the joint development and delivery of technical cooperation programs to countries in the region and a number of other information sharing activities to promote greater awareness and use of the intellectual property system in the Arab region.

Egypt has been a member of WIPO since 1975. It is party to nine other WIPO-administered international treaties including the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks and the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs.

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