The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday warned the World Trade Organization’s new director-general not to “distract” herself with proposals to suspend global intellectual property rules in order to distribute COVID-19 vaccines around the world.

Patrick Kilbride, senior vice president of the Global Innovation Policy Center at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, told the WTO to recognize how important “transparent and predictable intellectual property rights” have been in spurring collaborative efforts to develop vaccines.

Kilbride’s comments came just a day after the trade body’s new director-general, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, issued her first address to the WTO’s General Council.

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