2. The Doha development agenda

The economic crisis has made progress in the negotiations of the Doha Development Agenda in the World Trade Organization even more important.

But look at the Doha agenda with a more detached set of eyes, and you wonder what all the fuss is about.

Within the context of economic development it has also come to prominence in the Doha Development Round.

Trade remained a principal driver of development, and the three States remained fully committed to advancing the Doha Development Round.

This omission renders the Doha round of trade negotiations unfriendly to development.

The Doha Round was constructed on a myth, namely that a negotiating agenda focused on agriculture would constitute a development round.

We call for all States to display the political will to implement the Doha Development Agenda and for its full implementation by 2006.

The Kingdom of Swaziland believes that the Doha Development Agenda needs to be seriously advanced, with industrialized countries addressing the needs of developing countries.

The launch at Doha in 2001 of a round of negotiations devoted to development had raised enormous expectations.

The WTO Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong will be a critical milestone in the process of the negotiations on the Doha Development Agenda.

The historic decision taken by heads of State and Government last June in Doha to create a development fund derives from the same impetus.

For example, one of the critical issues blocking progress on the World Trade Organization s Doha Development Agenda of global free trade talks centers on the extent to which major developing countries should open their markets.

Meanwhile, the Doha Development Round risks becoming the first post war multilateral trade negotiation to fail.

Guinea s current agenda mirrors that of the G 8.

Reiterating that development concerns form an integral part of the Doha Development Agenda, which places the needs and interests of developing and least developed countries at the heart of the Doha Work Programme,See A C.2 56 7, annex.

Reiterating that development concerns form an integral part of the Doha Development Agenda, which places the needs and interests of developing and least developed countries at the heart of the Doha Work Programme,See A C.2 56 7, annex.

Her delegation remained committed to the Doha Development Agenda and would remain at the forefront of efforts to ensure that the current trade negotiations produced ambitious results.

It is therefore important that we honour the content of the Doha Round, as reconfirmed by the Executive Council of the World Trade Organization on 1 August 2004, in accordance with the Monterrey Consensus.

Recalls that Member States redirected and recommitted themselves to fulfilling the development dimensions of the Doha Development Agenda, which places the needs and interests of developing countries at the heart of the Doha work programme, and recognizes the major role that trade plays as an engine of growth and development and in eradicating poverty

Economic growth is a powerful driver of development, supported by comprehensive trade liberalization by developed and developing countries alike under the World Trade Organization and Doha round negotiations.

Trade, as an engine of growth, was a critical factor without a timely and satisfactory outcome to the Doha Development Agenda, developing countries could not achieve the economic growth needed to meet the Millennium Development Goals.

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Furthermore, support should given to the sixth WTO Ministerial Conference to be held in Hong Kong in December 2005 and to renewing the call for the achievement of the goals of the Doha Development Agenda.

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However, in an effort to move closer towards the formulation of a fully programmatic budget, the programmes are presented in a thematic manner.

Life without Doha

Doha Plan of Action

The Doha work programme

A Peace Agenda for Global Development

An Agenda for Europe s Weary Magicians

Here is a five point agenda.

We should highlight the importance to development and trade derived economic growth and ensure that the summit creates a positive atmosphere for any early resolution and concrete outcomes from the Doha round.

The EU was strongly committed to ensuring a development friendly, sustainable and ambitious outcome for the Doha Development Agenda that would maximize development gains and thus contribute to the achievement of the MDGs.

There has been no progress in the Doha development round, and consultations to date have yielded no fundamental instructions to the Hong Kong ministerial meeting, to be held in November, to advance the situation of developing countries.