A/RES/57/235
Recalling that the domestic efforts made by many developing countries in
recent years to reshape their economies, in particular by autonomous trade
liberalization, will be more effective if they are matched by enhanced and
predictable market access for their main export priorities in goods and services and
by effective support for the development of their supply capacity, and bearing in
mind in this regard paragraph 28 of the Monterrey Consensus of the International
Conference on Financing for Development, 4
Noting the proposals made to implement the work programme of the World
Trade Organization, including those to liberalize international agricultural and nonagricultural trade,
Noting also the significant contribution of the multilateral trading system to
economic growth, development and employment, and the importance of maintaining
the process of reform and liberalization of trade policies, as well as the importance
of rejecting the use of protectionism so that the system plays its full part in
promoting recovery, growth and development, in particular of developing countries,
Recalling that, to benefit fully from trade, which in many cases is the single
most important external source of development financing, the establishment and
enhancement of appropriate institutions and policies in developing countries, as well
as in countries with economies in transition, are needed, and that, in this context,
enhanced market access, balanced rules and well-targeted, sustainably financed
technical assistance and capacity-building programmes for developing countries
also play important roles,
1.
Reaffirms the commitments of the Ministerial Declaration of the Fourth
Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization 2 to place the needs and
interests of developing countries at the heart of the work programme adopted in the
Declaration and to continue to make positive efforts designed to ensure that
developing countries, especially the least developed among them, secure a share in
the growth of world trade commensurate with the needs of their economic
development;
2.
Takes note of the in-depth review undertaken by the Trade and
Development Board with respect to developments and issues in the post-Doha work
programme of particular concern to developing countries and its contribution to an
understanding of the actions required to help developing countries secure beneficial
and meaningful integration into the multilateral trading system and the global
economy and to achieve a balanced, development-oriented and successful outcome
at the end of the Doha process;
3.
Also takes note, in this regard, of the relevant work of other international
organizations;
4.
Expresses its concern about the adoption of a number of unilateral
actions that are not consistent with rules of the World Trade Organization, harm the
exports of all countries, in particular those of developing countries, and have a
considerable bearing on the ongoing World Trade Organization negotiations and on
the achievement and further enhancement of the development dimension of the trade
negotiations;
5.
Acknowledges the measures taken to increase market access consistent
with the rules of the World Trade Organization for some developing countries, in
particular for the least developed countries, and further recognizes the importance of
enhanced and predictable access to all markets for the exports of developing
countries;
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