WTO Chief Says Compromise Possible on Vaccine Patent Waiver

World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says, “I believe that members can find a pragmatic compromise” on the issue of intellectual-property waivers for vaccine patents.

• “We need to diversify and decentralize the manufacturing of vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics,” she says in a speech at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington
• “Our current inequality in access to Covid-19 vaccines is morally unacceptable”
• NOTE: Earlier, U.S. Trade Chief Tai Says WTO Vaccine Waiver Making Progress
• NOTE: Oct. 7, WTO Vaccine IP-Waiver Talks Move to Compromise, Spokesman Says
• WTO can play an important role in addressing climate change, Okonjo-Iweala also says ...