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(m) Implementing duty-free and quota-free market access for all least
developed countries in conformity with the Hong Kong Ministerial Declaration
adopted by the World Trade Organization in 2005; 29
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(n) Further implementing aid for trade, including through the Enhanced
Integrated Framework for Trade-related Technical Assistance to Least Developed
Countries, to help strengthen and enhance the trade capacity and international
competitiveness of developing countries so as to ensure equitable benefits from
increased trading opportunities and to foster economic growth;
(o) Strengthening regional integration and trade as it is crucial for significant
development benefits, growth and jobs and for generating resources to sustain
progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals;
(p) Fulfilling, in the Doha Development Agenda,28 the 2005 pledge of
members of the World Trade Organization to ensure the parallel elimination in
agriculture of all forms of export subsidies and disciplines on all export measures
with equivalent effect to be completed by the end of 2013;
(q) Assisting developing countries in ensuring long-term debt sustainability
through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt
restructuring, as appropriate, while noting also that developing countries can seek to
negotiate, as a last resort, on a case-by-case basis and through existing frameworks,
agreements on temporary debt standstills between debtors and creditors in order to
help mitigate the adverse impacts of the crisis and stabilize negative macroeconomic
developments;
(r) Considering enhanced approaches to sovereign debt restructuring
mechanisms based on existing frameworks and principles, the broad participation of
creditors and debtors, the comparable treatment of all creditors and an important
role for the Bretton Woods institutions, and in this regard welcoming and calling
upon all countries to contribute to the ongoing discussion in the International
Monetary Fund and the World Bank and other forums on the need for, and
feasibility of, a more structured framework for international cooperation in this area;
(s) Increasing partnerships with businesses to achieve positive development
outcomes by mobilizing private sector resources that contribute to the achievement
of the Millennium Development Goals;
(t) Reaffirming the right to use, to the full, the provisions contained in the
World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual
Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement), 30 the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS
Agreement and Public Health, 31 the decision of the General Council of the World
Trade Organization of 30 August 2003 on the implementation of paragraph 6 of the
Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, 32 and, when formal
acceptance procedures are completed, the amendment to article 31 of the
Agreement, 33 which provide flexibilities for the protection of public health, and, in
particular, to promote access to medicines for all, and encourage the provision of
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World Trade Organization, document WT/MIN(05)/DEC. Available from http://docsonline.wto.org.
See Legal Instruments Embodying the Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations,
done at Marrakesh on 15 April 1994 (GATT secretariat publication, Sales No. GATT/1994-7).
31
World Trade Organization, document WT/MIN(01)/DEC/2. Available from http://docsonline.wto.org.
32
See World Trade Organization, document WT/L/540 and Corr.1. Available from http://docsonline.wto.org.
33
See World Trade Organization, document WT/L/641. Available from http://docsonline.wto.org.
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