The United States has released $1.19 million to fund training programmes to combat intellectual property theft in Pakistan, Brazil, Korea, Malaysia and Panama.
This is in addition to another tranche of funding amounting to $1.31 million, announced in August, for projects in Paraguay, Thailand and Mexico, as well as Apec and Asean nations, as well as countries in the Central American Free Trade Agreement, State Department Deputy Spokesman Adam Ereli said.
This brings to 2.5 million, the amount of money we are spending on international training programmes in various parts of the world to combat piracy and counterfeiting efforts, Ereli said.
"All of these programmes are part of the strategy targeting organised piracy or STOP initiative that was announced on October 4 by the United States Trade Representative, the Department of Commerce, and the Department of Justice and Homeland Security", he added.
Source: Sify
