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We, heads of State and Government, gathered in Monterrey, Mexico, on 21-22 March 2002, have resolved to address the challenges of financing for development around the world, particularly in developing countries. Our goal is to eradicate poverty, achieve sustained economic growth and promote sustainable development as we advance to a fully inclusive and equitable global economic system.
The draft Cancun Ministerial test released this afternoon largely represents the continued promotion of the U.S.- EU proposal and would do nothing to address the widespread practice of agricultural dumping. In fact, by proposing no timeframe for reductions in all forms of export subsidies, in article 3.6, this text is a step back from earlier proposals.
Concept paper on Policy Space for Development.
Press release from the Indian delegation to the 4th Ministerial.
Draft report by the World Trade Organization Working Group on the Relationship between Trade and Investment to the General Council. May 2003.
The United Nations General Assembly in its resolution 55/199 of December 20 2000 decided to hold in 2002 in South Africa the World Summit on Sustainable Development.
A draft of a Protocol for Safety in Biotechnology prepared at the request of the African delegates to the biosaftey negotiations at Aarhus, Denmark, in July of 1996.
Draft ministerial statement from the WTO's fifth session in Cancun, Mexico. Sept. 14, 2003.
The WTO has revised the Draft Declaration to the 4th Ministerial. This is an early copy of the revised draft.
The next to last version of the Ministerial Declaration from the Doha Ministerial. As we publish this document, the delegates are still working, and there could be changes to this document at the end of the meeting. This version replaces version JOB(01)140/Rev.2 released November 13.
Draft Ministerial Declaration released November 13, 2001 at the WTO 4th Ministerial in Doha, Qatar. This is not the final version, but it is the version that will be used to negotiate the final.
This draft Ministerial Declaration is submitted for the consideration of delegations by the Chairman of the General Council in co-operation with the Director-General. It represents what they judge to be the best possible basis at the present time for reaching an eventual consensus on a balanced text to be put before Ministers in Doha.
Full title of draft guidance: "Evaluating the Safety of Antimicrobial New Animal Drugs with Regard to Their Microbiological Effects on Bacteria of Human Health Concern"
Novii Sadovod i Fermer (Rodale's Russian gardening and farming magazine), No. 4, 2004
Environmental Defense pushes for implementing carbon sequestering trading to support farmers and combat climate change.
Civil society statement on policy coherence, signed by 40 networks and NGOs.
FOEI believes that the present trading system promotes the free movement of goods, services and capital as a goal in itself, rather than ensuring that international trade promotes economically equitable and ecologically sustainable development.
Intervention by Kristin Dawkins of IATP addressing at the ECOSOC Prepatory meeting On Financing For Development in which she address problems of development related to dumping and agricultural supply management.
Remarks by Sophia Murphy at ECOSOC Hearings and Dialogue with Representatives of Civil Society, March 20, 2003, in New York.