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This past inability to legislate is what makes the Doha Declaration of November 14, 2001 so interesting because it looks a lot like legislation. If launching a new Round were all the Declaration did, it would have taken a couple of pages. But the governments were not willing to do that so solely. The Declaration and its attached Decision on Implementation and Declaration on TRIPS and public health are full of decisions that seem to have immediate effect in interpreting WTO rules and calling for further WTO action. The legal significance of the Doha Declaration will assuredly be a matter of some debate in the months ahead. Some people will say that it is just a series of political statements and glosses that are non-binding and have no legal effect within the WTO legal system. Others will say that the Declaration is WTO secondary legislation and begins to reset the imbalance in the WTO as between the judicial and the legislative.

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The past inability to legislate makes the Doha Declaration and its attached Decision on Implementation and Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health so interesting because it looks a lot like legislation. However, their legal significance will certainly be a matter of some debate in the months ahead.

过去立法方面的无能使得《多哈宣言》和所附的《有关与贸易相关的知识产权和公共卫生的实施决议和宣言》令人好奇，因为《多哈宣言》非常像立法，然而，《多哈宣言》以及其它所附文件的法律意义无疑将成为今后几个月引发争议的一件事。

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