This is a request filed under the Freedom of Information Act.

Request Date: 9/30/2009
Request Reference Number: C6218

The time period of my request is from 1/1/2009 to the present.

Description of request:

Records related to the issue of a biomedical research and development treaty and the World Health Organization WHO, including negotiations on the role of the WHO as a stakeholder in discussions of such a treaty. These negotiations included a meeting with negotiators in January 2009, and a meeting of the World Health Assembly in May 2009, plus other meetings we may not know about.

For faster processing please restrict the parameters of this FOIA request to the State Archiving System (SAS)--over 25 million electronic records consisting of telegrams from mid-1973 to present.

In order to help to determine my status to assess fees, you should know that I am

affiliated with an educational or noncommercial scientific institution, and this request is made for a scholarly or scientific purpose and not for commercial use.(Additional documentation will be required. See

Additional Comments

I request a waiver of fees. I intend to publish an article on the subject of the FOIA in the Huffington Post.

Thank you for your consideration of my request. Sincerely,
James Love.

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