<p>Convention<br>Establishing the World Intellectual<br>Property Organization<br>Signed at Stockholm on July 14, 1967<p>The Contracting Parties,<br>Desiring to contribute to better understanding and cooperation among States for their mutual benefit on the basis of respect for their sovereignty and equality,<br>Desiring, in order to encourage creative activity, to promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world,<br>Desiring to modernize and render more efficient the administration of the Unions<br>established in the fields of the protection of industrial property and the protection of literary and artistic works, while fully respecting the independence of each of the Unions, Agree as follows:<br></p></p>