WO/GA/XXI/13 ORIGINAL: English WIPO DATE: October 1, 1997
WO/GA/XXI/13 ORIGINAL: English WIPO DATE: October 1, 1997 WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION GENEVA WIPO GENERAL ASSEMBLY Twenty-First Session (13th Ordinary) Geneva, September 22 to October 1, 1997 REPORT adopted by the General Assembly 1. The General Assembly was concerned with the following items of the Consolidated Agenda (document AB/XXXI/1 Prov.2): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 15, 16, 17, 21, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29 and 30. 2. The report on the said items, with the exception of items 4, 7, 8, 9, 15, 16, 17, 23, 24 and 27 is contained in the General Report (document AB/XXXI/12). 3. Ms. Sheila Batchelor, Chair of the General Assembly, presided over the meetings of the General Assembly. n:\postoff\menezes\govbody\wga21e13.doc WO/GA/XXI/13 page 2 ITEM 4 OF THE CONSOLIDATED AGENDA: APPOINTMENT OF THE NEW DIRECTOR GENERAL 4. The Chair of the General Assembly, Ms. Sheila Batchelor (Canada), noted that paragraph 5 of document WO/GA/XXI/1 was divided into two parts. With the consent of the Assembly, she announced that the General Assembly would deal initially only with the first part of paragraph 5 inviting the General Assembly to act upon the nomination of the WIPO Coordination Committee. With respect to the second part of the paragraph, the Chair noted that the WIPO Convention provided, in Article 9(3), that the Director General shall be appointed for a fixed term, which shall be not less than six years. The General Assembly would return to the term and conditions of the appointment after consultations among the Group Coordinators.
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