General comments on the IPR programme

Follow up to the IPR of Algeria

Follow up to the IPR of Ethiopia

Follow up to the IPR of Peru

Follow up to the IPR of Ghana

Follow up to the IPR of Sri Lanka

A further IPR is being prepared for Zambia.

One expert raised the issue of applying IPR concepts to indigenous knowledge.

The Investment Policy Review (IPR) of Sri Lanka was presented on 6 October 2004.

A positive result with respect to the IPR methodology was reflected in the time needed to prepare an IPR, which had been reduced from more than two years for the first reports to an average of six to eight months.

In January 2005, it opened a one stop shop to facilitate establishment procedures, as recommended in the IPR.

The UNCTAD secretariat introduced the central features of the IPR, starting with the recent trends in foreign direct investment.

Several delegations thanked UNCTAD for the IPR report which was considered by many delegation as comprehensive, objective and very useful.

Furthermore, it was stressed that the UNCTAD secretariat should increase its efforts to monitor the implementation of the IPR recommendations.

The Government of Egypt had invited UNCTAD to assess the extent to which it had implemented the recommendations of the IPR.

The related notion of indigenous intellectual property rights (IPR) has arisen in attempt to conserve each society s culture base and essentially prevent ethnocide.

It was argued that, by becoming better at using their IPR regimes, developing countries would also become more interesting as partners to TNCs.

Implementing the IPR recommendations could improve Benin's capacity to attract FDI and benefit from FDI by reforming the regulatory and institutional investment framework.

It was stressed that the Invest in Peace programme should be extended to other such countries, with the assistance of UNCTAD's IPR programme.

While the political and macroeconomic stability in Benin were important factors in attracting FDI, the IPR nevertheless highlighted certain weaknesses relating to the investment framework.

The UNCTAD secretariat concluded the discussions by stressing that it would follow up on all the proposals made regarding the improvement of the IPR programme.

The secretariat informed the Commission that the IPR programme was undergoing an evaluation by a donor country, for the purpose of improving its impact and methodology.

Many speakers underlined that it was important to implement the follow up recommendations of the IPR, and the Sri Lankan Government's commitments to do so was appreciated.

It was reported that the new Government of Algeria, which had been in place since 2004, had endorsed and begun implementing all the recommendations of the IPR.

Other travel ban violations

Victims of gross violations of international human rights law and serious violations of international humanitarian law

The negative balance results from the difference between payments of instalments to implementing partners in 2004 ( 220,644,090) and expenditures reported through the implementing partner recording (IPR) system ( 223,431,576).

V. Victims of gross violations of international human rights law and serious violations of international humanitarian law

Human rights violations and violence

Increasing impunity for such violations

Examples of arms embargo violations

(c) Assist integration of developing countries into the global production system, including the facilitation of cross border flows of investment and technology and improvement of their IPR regulatory framework.

Although some violations of political rights were confirmed, the report finds no evidence of any systematic pattern of violations.

I can assure members that if there is any semblance of human rights violations, those violations are not deliberate.

The measures suggested by the IPR have been incorporated into the five year strategic plan of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), and many of them have already been implemented.

This action would include a more resolute approach to monitoring the follow up implementation process, building on the scorecard system developed for the implementation report on the IPR of Egypt.

Such violations occur elsewhere as well.

Violations of these rights still abound.

Incitement to violations and illicit use

Of measures designed to prevent violations

Violations of the right to life

(b) Violations attributed to armed groups

(b) Violations attributed to armed groups

Gross violations of international human rights law and serious violations of international humanitarian law that constitute crimes under international law

Only after countries have accumulated sufficient indigenous capabilities with extensive science and technology infrastructure to undertake creative imitation does IPR protection become an important element in technology transfer and industrial activities.