India has criticised developed countries for overcharging for vaccines and overfishing the high seas in a dramatic intervention that could torpedo agreements in those areas at the World Trade Organization’s ministerial meeting.
Piyush Goyal, India’s commerce minister, took the unusual step of publishing his remarks to fellow ministers in closed-door sessions in Geneva on Tuesday.
Delhi has long argued for an intellectual property waiver that would allow poorer countries to make cheap copies of western vaccines without paying royalties. But it worked on a compromise with the EU and US that would allow governments to issue compulsory licences and compensate patent holders.
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