That is certainly something we've been focused on very intently.
Since having the meeting back in November, we have been working towards trying to develop a statement that could be presented to the WTO General Council. We initially presented a statement to the WTO General Council on December 17 of last year. We did get quite a bit of support, but we've been working on it since then to build some broader support. We've also been conducting outreach activities. Now our target is to try to build support for the adoption of a WTO declaration on trade and health at the General Council meeting in May.
We're also looking forward to the next ministerial conference, the MC12, in Geneva—as I mentioned, it would be in November of this year—so we can take a look at where we are on the trade and health initiative and also see if we can start to get a broader negotiation going for these issues, to meet the very objectives you outlined. We want to make sure we can avoid a lot of the difficulties we've had over the past year by removing export restrictions and making sure that any actions taken in periods of critical shortages are targeted, transparent, proportionate and temporary. We're trying to get rid of all kinds of tariff restrictions. All in all, it is an effort to try to make sure that trade, particularly in these types of products, moves as freely and openly as possible.