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development needs, including food security and rural development, takes note of the
non-trade concerns reflected in the negotiating proposals submitted by members of
the World Trade Organization, and confirms that non-trade concerns would be taken
into account in the negotiations as provided for in the Agreement on Agriculture, in
accordance with the Ministerial Declaration;
(e) Considers that negotiations in trade in services should be conducted with
a view to promoting the economic growth of all trading partners and the
development of developing and least developed countries, that there should be no a
priori exclusion of any service sector or mode of supply and that special attention
should be given to sectors and modes of supply of export interest to developing
countries, and recognizes the work already undertaken in the negotiations and the
large number of proposals submitted by members on a wide range of sectors and on
several horizontal issues, as well as on movement of natural persons;
(f) Reaffirms the commitments made with respect to the interpretation and
implementation of the Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property
Rights 8 in a manner supportive of public health and promotion of access to medicine
for all, including full and timely implementation of the Declaration on the
Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Public
Health, adopted by the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade
Organization on 14 November 2001; 9
9.
Acknowledges the seriousness of the concerns expressed by the least
developed countries in the Zanzibar Declaration, adopted by their ministers
responsible for trade in July 2001, and recognizes that the integration of the least
developed countries into the multilateral trading system requires meaningful market
access, support for the diversification of their production and export-base and traderelated technical assistance and capacity-building;
10. Stresses the importance of facilitating the accession of all developing
countries, particularly the least developed countries, as well as countries with
economies in transition, that apply for membership in the World Trade Organization,
bearing in mind paragraph 21 of resolution 55/182 and subsequent developments;
11. Reaffirms the commitments made at the Fourth Ministerial Conference of
the World Trade Organization held at Doha and at the Third United Nations
Conference on the Least Developed Countries, held at Brussels from 14 to 20 May
2001, 10 and in this regard calls upon developed countries that have not already done
so to work towards the objective of duty-free, quota-free market access for all least
developed countries’ exports, and notes that consideration of proposals for
developing countries to contribute to improved market access for least developed
countries would also be helpful;
12. Also reaffirms the commitment to actively pursue the work programme of
the World Trade Organization with respect to addressing the trade-related issues and
concerns affecting the fuller integration of small, vulnerable economies into the
multilateral trading system in a manner commensurate with their special
circumstances and in support of their efforts towards sustainable development, in
accordance with paragraph 35 of the Ministerial Declaration adopted at Doha;
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WT/MIN(01)/DEC/2. Available on the Internet at http://docsonline.wto.org.
See A/CONF.191/11 and 12.
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