His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr met with Director General of World Intellectual Property Organization Francis Gurry

Ukrainian Orthodox Church

On July 1, the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church at his metropolitan’s residence at the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra met with director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) doctor Francis Gurry, who was on a visit to Kyiv on these days at the invitation of the Ukrainian government.

Accompanying the high guest at the Kyiv Caves Monastery was Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Dmytro Tabachnyk.

In the course of meeting Mr. Francis Gurry told His Beatitude of the work of the organization he heads, whose headquarters is located in Geneva, the capital of Switzerland, where metropolitan Volodymyr had worked for a few years as Patriarchal Exarch of West Europe.

Also the high guest shared his impressions of staying in Kyiv and thanked the First Hierarch for the possibility of visiting the great shrine – the Kyiv Caves Monastery. To his opinion the visit to Lavra was the most important event during his stay in Ukraine.
At the end, the parties exchanged keepsake gifts.

Reference. Doctor Francis Gurry started his activity in the domain of intellectual property (IP) in 1985 at the post of the specialist of the Bureau for Cooperation in the Branch of Development and External Relations for the Countries of Asia and Pacific Ocean region. Starting from 1997 he held post of the counsel to Director General, and starting from 2003 he became his deputy.  In autumn 2008 he was appointed Director General of WIPO.

WIPO is a specialized establishment of the UN, whose aim is to promote protection of the intellectual property all over the world by means of securing cooperation between the states and through the multilateral agreements of administrative rule, regulating legal and administrative aspects of the Intellectual Property.

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