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22. Invites members of the international community to consider the interests
of non-members of the World Trade Organization in the context of trade
liberalization;
23. 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 countries with 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 Doha Ministerial Declaration;
24. Acknowledges the seriousness of the concerns expressed in the Almaty
Programme of Action adopted at the International Ministerial Conference of
Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries and Donor Countries and
International Financial and Development Institutions on Transit Transport
Cooperation, held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on 28 and 29 August 2003, 16 and stresses
the need for the special problems and needs of landlocked developing countries,
including those contained in paragraph 33 of the Programme of Action, as well as
other relevant issues contained in the section on international trade and trade
facilitation of the Programme of Action, to be effectively addressed by the relevant
international organizations and donors in a multi-stakeholder approach;
25. Notes the health- and environment-related measures that have an impact
on exports, stresses that the adoption or enforcement of any measures necessary to
protect human, animal or plant life or health should not be applied in a manner that
would constitute arbitrary or unjustified discrimination or a disguised restriction on
international trade, and recognizes the importance of capacity-building support to
enable developing countries to put in place measures that are appropriate and
necessary for meeting standards consistent with those of the World Trade
Organization;
26. Encourages the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development,
the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the United Nations Industrial
Development Organization, the United Nations Development Programme and other
relevant international organizations to continue to cooperate on trade-related
capacity-building in developing countries, including, as appropriate, under the
Integrated Framework for Trade-related Technical Assistance to Least Developed
Countries and the Joint Integrated Technical Assistance Programme;
27. Requests the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to
continue its work, within its mandate, on trade-related issues and policies, from the
development perspective, including its contribution to the Plan of Implementation of
the World Summit on Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg Plan of
Implementation”), 17 and notes its work on development benchmarks of the
international trading system and trade negotiations; 18
28. Reiterates the importance of supporting United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development programmes of technical cooperation and capacity-building
that assist developing countries, especially the least developed countries, countries
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A/CONF.202/3, annex I.
Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa,
26 August-4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum), chap. I,
resolution 2, annex.
18
See TD/B/50/8, sect. III.
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