MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE LEAGUE OF ARAB STATES (LAS) AND THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION (WIPO) ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ The League of Arab States (LAS) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”), hereinafter jointly referred to as “Parties”, Believing in the importance of strengthening and enhancing their cooperation, coordination and collaboration on matters of mutual interest in the field of intellectual property, taking into account the aims of the Charter of the League of Arab States and the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization, Convinced that a cooperation framework would enable the Parties to comply, in a more efficient manner, with their respective commitments in fields of economic and social development insofar as intellectual property (IP) and IP industries of the Arab region are concerned, enabling LAS Member States to achieve further gains by adopting a regional approach in facing major challenges, and that cooperation in such fields allows for more benefits and exchange of expertise, Bearing in mind recent international developments which require enhanced coordination and collaboration between the Parties, Affirming the continuing cooperation between the Parties under the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) concluded in 2000, Have agreed as follows:
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE LEAGUE OF ARAB STATES (LAS) AND THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION (WIPO) ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ The League of Arab States (LAS) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”), hereinafter jointly referred to as “Parties”, Believing in the importance of strengthening and enhancing their cooperation, coordination and collaboration on matters of mutual interest in the field of intellectual property, taking into account the aims of the Charter of the League of Arab States and the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization, Convinced that a cooperation framework would enable the Parties to comply, in a more efficient manner, with their respective commitments in fields of economic and social development insofar as intellectual property (IP) and IP industries of the Arab region are concerned, enabling LAS Member States to achieve further gains by adopting a regional approach in facing major challenges, and that cooperation in such fields allows for more benefits and exchange of expertise, Bearing in mind recent international developments which require enhanced coordination and collaboration between the Parties, Affirming the continuing cooperation between the Parties under the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) concluded in 2000, Have agreed as follows:
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