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During the sixty-third series of meetings of the assemblies of the member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) that were convened this month, the state of Qatar won the presidency of the International Union for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (Berne Union) that belongs to WIPO.

WIPO member states had unanimously agreed to elect Ahmed Essa Al Sulaiti, Acting Director of the office of the State of Qatar to the World Trade Organization (WTO) as Chairman of the Committee of the Union for two years, with the election of representatives from US and Finland as chairman deputies.

The State of Qatar's presidency of this Union is emanating from the great attention Qatar pays to intellectual property issues, as the members of the Berne Union placed their trust in the State of Qatar in recognition of the progress it has achieved in this strategic field.

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