GROUP OF 77

• Declaration by the Group of 77 and China on the Fourth WTO Ministerial Meeting at Doha, Qatar (Geneva, 22 October 2001)
  
  
• Statement of the Group of 77 in support of the State of Qatar as the host of the Fourth Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization (New York, 19 October 2001)

WTO

TRADE FOR DEVELOPMENT - THE WAY AHEAD
Address by Director-General Mike Moore to the Group of 77 Ministerial Meeting, Marrakesh, 14 September 1999

ANALYSES OF DRAFT OUTCOME

ANALYSIS OF REVISED DRAFT DECLARATION AND SUGGESTED RESPONSES, by Mr. B.L. Das (Third World Network Information Service on WTO Issues, 30 October 2001)

RELATED NEWS

G77 AND CHINA SEEK REDRESSAL OF ‘DEVELOPMENT DEFICIT' AT WTO
Geneva, 23 Oct (Chakravarthi Raghavan) - - The Group of 77 and China in a declaration on the 4th WTO Ministerial Conference at Doha, have emphasized as the priority for any additional negotiations, the implementation issues and redressal of the "development deficit in the WTO". (SUNS, No. 4994)

HARBINSON'S DRAFT FOR ECONOMIC TALIBANISATION OF WTO
Geneva, 28 Oct (Chakravarthi Raghavan) - - Developing countries are now faced with a draft ministerial declaration and other documents for the Doha ministerial that is perhaps the most biassed document yet to emerge in such a process in the 53-year history of the trading system. (SUNS, No. 4998)

WTO DRAFTS BIASSED TOWARDS THE NORTH, CHARGE NGOs
Geneva, 30 Oct (Kanaga Raja) - The World Trade Organization's (WTO) revised draft Declaration maintains and even increases the bias in favour of industrialized-country trade interests, especially in light of the conduct of negotiations for a new comprehensive trade round for the upcoming Doha ministerial, charges Friends of the Earth International (FOEI). (SUNS, No. 4999)

CHAIRMAN HARBINSON AND DG MOORE ACT RULELESSLY AT WTO
Geneva, 31 Oct (Chakravarthi Raghavan) - - The rules-based six-year old World Trade Organization set up under the Marrakesh treaty (a formal international treaty) took another step to prove to the world its illegitimate, rule-less and undemocratic, but power-based character, when without any authority or rule, the Chairman of the General Council and the WTO Director-General announced that they would send the draft ministerial declaration and other drafts prepared by them to the Doha Ministers.(SUNS, No. 5000)

WTO MEET ENDANGERED BY OWN DRAFT DECLARATION, NOT BOMBS
Geneva, 31 Oct (IPS/Gustavo Capdevila) -- The authorities in Qatar have 12,000 uniformed agents ready to protect the delegations to the fourth ministerial conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) next week, but they have no way to ensure harmony among the trade ministers representing the 142 member states. (SUNS, No. 5000)

HARBINSON IGNORES LACK OF CONSENSUS, SENDS DRAFT TO DOHA
Geneva, 1 Nov (Chakravarthi Raghavan) - - The Chairman of the General Council of the World Trade Organization, Mr. Stuart Harbinson of Hong Kong China, made clear Thursday that despite challenges and objections from several developing countries, he would persist in his course of forwarding to the ministers at Doha the draft ministerial declaration prepared by him on his own authority, and leave it to the ministers to deal with it. (SUNS, No. 5001)