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(iv) World Trade Organization (WTO) WTO Trade Facilitation

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10 World Trade Organization, World Trade Report 2003, pp. 22 32.

The World Trade Organization secretariat has made technical assistance on trade facilitation one of the priorities of the World Trade Organization Technical Assistance Plan for 2005.

Ms. Nora Neufeld, World Trade Organization

Source World Trade Organization, May 2005.

(ii) World Customs Organization (WCO) The World Customs Organization and Trade Facilitation

5. Notes with satisfaction the increasing cooperation between the Economic Cooperation Organization and the World Trade Organization which has accorded observer status to the former, and the increasing involvement of the Economic Cooperation Organization in the relevant forums and ministerial conferences of the World Trade Organization, and also notes the holding of joint Economic Cooperation Organization and World Trade Organization seminars on trade negotiation simulation

(e) Cooperation with the World Trade Organization

E. Cooperation with the World Trade Organization

World Trade Organization, document WT L 579.

World Trade Organization, document WT L 579.

Prepared by the World Trade Organization (convener).

The secretariat has continued to cooperate with the World Customs Organization and the Committee on Trade and Environment of the World Trade Organization.

The World Trade Organization is now disseminating trade profiles of economies combining trade flows with trade policy information sourced from within the World Trade Organization and other organizations and OECD has developed a prototype on trade indicators (trade plus production, employment, investment, etc.) linking standardized information from various OECD databases to trade data.

See World Trade Organization, document WT L 540.

See World Trade Organization, document WT L 579.

The World Trade Organization technical assistance programme also provided for national seminars on World Trade Organization related topics upon request from member and accession countries.

Investigate implications of the World Trade Organization and Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights agreements.

Investigate implications of the World Trade Organization and Trade related aspects of intellectual property rights agreements.

The World Trade Organization ESCAP Regional Workshop on Trade Facilitation for Asian and Pacific Economies, held in Hangzhou, China, from 5 to 7 April 2005, was convened to train trade negotiators on the relevant aspects of the ongoing World Trade Organization negotiations on trade facilitation, including transit.

9. Also notes with satisfaction the increasing cooperation between the Economic Cooperation Organization and the World Trade Organization, and expresses its appreciation of the holding in Bishkek in 2002 of a joint Economic Cooperation Organization and World Trade Organization seminar on regionalism

See World Trade Organization, document WT MIN(01) DEC 2.

Development therefore rightly lies at the heart of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha round of multilateral trade negotiations.

25. Also requests the Secretary General to transmit the present resolution to the Director General of the World Trade Organization for circulation as an official document of the World Trade Organization.

J. Developments in the negotiations by the World Trade Organization Committee on Trade and Environment (decision XIV 11) Since the commencement of negotiations in 2002, the Committee on Trade and Environment of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in its Special Sessions has held 13 formal and several informal meetings.

Preparations for observer status for Palestine at the World Trade Organization (WTO).

This approach has been endorsed by a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel.

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) continued to nurture the rapid growth of South South trade and commerce.

15. Recalls the commitment of the members of the World Trade Organization, in line with the Doha mandates, to progress in the areas of rules, trade and environment, and trade related aspects of intellectual property rights, as stated in the World Trade Organization General Council decision of 1 August 2004

Trade facilitation was now being negotiated at the World Trade Organization, and UNCTAD had been asked to collaborate in that regard.

Noting the Ministerial Declaration and decisions adopted at the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, held in Doha from 9 to 14 November 2001,A C.2 56 7, annex. and the full commitment of all members of the World Trade Organization to give effect to them, in accordance with the decision of 1 August 2004 of the General Council of the World Trade Organization,World Trade Organization, document WT L 579. Available from http docsonline.wto.org.

Mr. Eduardo Tempone, Permanent Mission of Argentina to the World Trade Organization, Geneva

Mr. Kipkorir Aly Azad Rana, Deputy Director General of the World Trade Organization

Japan had been actively engaged in World Trade Organization negotiations in that area.

Mr. Kipkorir Aly Azad Rana, Deputy Director General of the World Trade Organization

Recalling the Doha work programme adopted at the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, on 14 November 2001,See A C.2 56 7, annex. and welcoming the decision adopted in this context by the General Council of the World Trade Organization on 1 August 2004,World Trade Organization, document WT L 579. Available from http docsonline.wto.org.

Regrettably, the summit has not given a clear and comprehensive direction to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Round of trade negotiations.

The World Trade Organization downloads data on its server and uses specific processing tools for the preparation of its annual trade statistics.

In the context of promoting trade for development, development issues must be taken up sincerely and effectively in the World Trade Organization frameworks.

Mr. Rana (World Trade Organization) It is a privilege and an honour to address the Assembly on behalf of the World Trade Organization and the new Director General, Mr. Pascal Lamy, who sends his best wishes.

Increased and immediate technical assistance should be extended to landlocked developing countries to ensure their effective participation in the World Trade Organization trade negotiations, particularly those related to trade facilitation.

The Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) is working on several programmes to facilitate transit trade.

A C.2 56 7, annex Doha Ministerial Declaration of the World Trade Organization