{"id":93545,"date":"2019-10-03T14:18:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T21:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=93545"},"modified":"2019-10-03T14:18:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T21:18:48","slug":"sri-lanka-says-intellectual-property-vital-for-socio-economic-advancement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/10\/03\/sri-lanka-says-intellectual-property-vital-for-socio-economic-advancement\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka says Intellectual Property vital for Socio-Economic advancement"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka Geneva<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Addressing\nthe 59<sup>th<\/sup> Session of the WIPO General Assemblies on 20 September\n2019, the delegation of Sri Lanka recalled how strengthened Intellectual\nProperty systems remained critical to the effective pursuit of economic and\nsocial development, by enabling developing countries to be fully engaged in the\nglobal economy driven by knowledge and innovation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri\nLanka\u2019s envoy in Geneva, Ambassador A.L.A Azeez, referred to the multifaceted\nwork that WIPO has carried out, including through the Committee on Development\nand Intellectual Property, by mainstreaming its Development Agenda, &nbsp;that\neffectively ensures the continued sharing of IP protected knowledge among\nMember States. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WIPO\u2019s\nnorm-setting agenda, Ambassador Azeez stressed, has extended to a number of\ninnovative areas including Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources,\nTraditional Knowledge and Folklore. He called upon the Inter-Governmental\nCommittee to expedite its work to finalize international legal instrument\/s extending\nprotection for these vital intellectual assets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri\nLanka also expressed appreciation to WIPO for its continued assistance in the\nform of technical cooperation and capacity building, and updated the WIPO\nGeneral Assemblies on Sri Lanka\u2019s progress in the accession process to the\nMadrid Protocol for the International Registration of\nMarks.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ndelegation of Sri Lanka to the WIPO General Assemblies comprised the Director\nGeneral of the National Intellectual Property Office of Sri Lanka, Mrs. Geethanjali\nRanawaka, Deputy Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the UN, Ms. Dayani\nMendis, and Minister Counsellor, Ms. Shashika Somaratne. The WIPO General\nAssemblies will be in session from 30 September to 11 October 2019 in Geneva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka<br>Geneva<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 September 2019&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka Geneva Addressing the 59th Session of the WIPO General Assemblies on 20 September 2019, the delegation of Sri Lanka recalled how strengthened Intellectual Property systems remained critical to the effective pursuit of economic and social development, by enabling developing countries to be fully engaged in the global economy driven by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}