Onnodig gezeik van ambassadeur Haley...
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US President Donald Trump's top official at the United Nations, Nikki Haley, has clashed against an Australian-led agency for not alerting the UN to North Korea's production of a substance sometimes used to make chemical weapons.
The US is disturbed the UN's World Intellectual Property Organisation, headed by senior Australian diplomat Francis Gurry, did not notify the UN Security Council about North Korean applying to patent sodium cyanide, which is on the international sanctions list.
The dual-purpose sodium cyanide is a compound that is sometimes used to make poisons and chemical weapons, but is often employed to extract gold, which North Korea is naturally endowed in.
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A day after their meeting Ms Haley released a statement - in response to media questions - voicing concern about WIPO's handling of North Korea's patent application for producing the chemical compound.
"The thought of placing cyanide in the hands of the North Koreans, considering their record on human rights, political prisoners, and assassinations is not only dangerous but defies common sense," Ambassador Haley said.
"We urge all UN agencies to be transparent and apply the utmost scrutiny when dealing with these types of requests from North Korea and other rogue nations."
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WIPO responded to Ms Haley, saying it believed that patent disclosures were not covered by the UN sanction rules and that an international treaty likely prohibits it from tipping off the UN Security Council.
"WIPO has never submitted a patent for review to the Sanction Committee, and the Committee staff has confirmed to us no Member State ever has either," WIPO said.
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It is not known whether the WIPO issue was discussed between Ms Bishop and Ms Haley, with one official source in New York saying they didn't believe it was raised.
A spokeswoman for Ms Bishop said Australia was closely monitoring the matter.
"WIPO has provided assurances that news reporting criticising its involvement in North Korea's patent application is inaccurate, and that it will assist the relevant UN sanctions committees with respect to any clarification necessary," she said.
The UN sanctions list bans the export and import of hundreds of chemicals and technologies to or from North Korea.
It is understood that WIPO's refusal to alert the UN Security Council was influenced by the Patent Cooperation Treaty not permitting WIPO to give the UNSC patent applications before their public release, in order to protect inventors.
"By contrast, military inventions are typically kept secret and are not filed as patent applications since, if they were, they would eventually become public," WIPO said.
North Korea's patent application was made to China's national intellectual property office.
WIPO was an administrative conduit in the process, receiving the application, translating the language into English and French and eventually publishing a notification on its website.
China determined that North Korea's sodium cyanide technology was invented elsewhere in the 1970s, so a patent is highly unlikely to be granted.
A US official said it was "common sense" that WIPO, a UN agency, should report North Korea's attempt to use the dual-purpose sodium cyanide.
A UN source said it was possible member countries could change or clarify the interpretation of the treaty at an international meeting in October to direct WIPO to explicitly disclose such applications to the Security Council.
http://www.afr.com/news/p(...)orea-20170525-gwcu2yA US official said it was "common sense" that WIPO, a UN agency, should report North Korea's attempt to use the dual-purpose sodium cyanide.Hoe is het indienen van een patentaanvraag een "poging om natrium cyanide te gebruiken"?
The thought of placing cyanide in the hands of the North KoreansHoe zou een patent in China "cyanide in de handen van de N Koreanen plaatsen"? Als ze een patentaanvraag indienen, dan zijn ze duidelijk in staat om het te maken. Als het onder de sancties valt, dan betekent een patent in China hoogstens dat N Korea geld kan verdienen met het patent, door bvb Chinese bedrijven een licensie te verkopen voor het gebruik van hun methode. Meer niet. Als ze zelf cyanide willen, dan kunnen ze het gewoon maken (wat ze ongetwijfeld ook doen, voor het ontginnen van gouderts), daar hebben ze geen patent voor nodig.
Wat een zinloos gedoe...