We are not against intellectual property protection, but we want to see that health prevails when there is a conflict, explains legendary Brazilian Ambassador Celso Amorim in discussing recommendations of the UN High Level Panel on Access to Medicines Story Transcript LYNN FRIES: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Lynn Fries in Geneva. In […]
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Celso Amorim has served as Brazil's Minister of Foreign Relations under President Itamar Franco (1993-1994), and again under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (2003-2010), and as Minister of Defence under President Dilma Rousseff (2011-2014). Amorim is the longest serving foreign minister of Brazil to date. Currently, Ambassador Amorim is the Chair of UNITAID, Board Member of the Advisory Council of Salamanca University, Chief of the Organization of American Sates' mission of Electoral Observation in Haiti, and member of the UN Secretary General's High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines. In 2015, he was a member of the UN Secretary General's High Level Panel on the Global Response to Health Crises.