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operationalization with sufficient and additional funding of the initiative to the
benefit of the recipient countries;
7.
Reaffirms that all countries have a shared interest in the success of the
Doha work programme, which aims both at further increasing trading opportunities
for developing countries and at making the trading system more conducive to
development, and underscores the need for the major developed countries to make
ambitious proposals in line with their commitments to make progress in all areas of
negotiations, particularly in agriculture, non-agricultural market access, services,
the trade-related intellectual property system and rules as well as operational and
meaningful special and differential treatment for developing countries, and to adopt
practical and concrete solutions to the outstanding implementation-related issues
and concerns raised by developing countries;
Calls for the successful and timely conclusion of the negotiations on the
8.
Doha work programme in order to maximize the contribution of the trading system
to raising standards of living, eradicating hunger and poverty, generating
employment and achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including
the Millennium Development Goals, and, in that context, underscores the fact that
enhanced market access for goods and services of export interest to developing
countries as well as strong, special and differential treatment in the outcome of
negotiations in all areas, balanced rules and well-targeted sustainably financed
technical assistance and capacity-building programmes for developing countries are
needed for the realization of the development dimension highlighted in the Doha
work programme, and stresses that the Sixth Ministerial Conference of the World
Trade Organization, to be held in Hong Kong, China, from 13 to 18 December 2005,
should constitute an important milestone to this end, and particularly for finalizing
the negotiating modalities for successful conclusion of the Doha round by 2006;
Recognizes the need to ensure that the comparative advantage of
9.
developing countries is not undermined by any form of protectionism, including the
arbitrary and abusive use of non-tariff measures, non-trade barriers and other
standards to unfairly restrict the access of developing countries’ products to
developed countries’ markets, reaffirms, in this regard, that developing countries
should play an increasing role in the formulation of, inter alia, safety, environment
and health standards, and recognizes the need to facilitate the increased and
meaningful participation of the developing countries in the work of relevant
international standard-setting organizations;
10. Calls for accelerating the negotiations on the development-related
mandate concerning the Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property
Rights 13 in the Doha Ministerial Declaration, especially the amendments of the
Agreement, in order for intellectual property rules fully to support the objectives of
the Convention on Biological Diversity 14 as well as for trade-related aspects of
intellectual property rights and public health to address the problems afflicting many
developing countries, including the least developed countries, especially those
resulting from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other epidemics;
11. Expresses its concern about the adoption of a number of unilateral
actions that are not consistent with the rules of the World Trade Organization, harm
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13
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).
14
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1760, No. 30619.
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