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Ambassador Andrea Negrotto Cambiaso and WTO Director General Mike
Moore signed today a Memorandum of Understanding affirming this
commitment.
“Italy
fully shares the goals outlined in the Doha Ministerial Declaration
according to which substantial technical assistance and capacity
building should be provided to developing and least-developed
countries and low-income countries in transition in order to help them
adjust to WTO rules and disciplines, implement obligations and
exercise the rights of membership, including drawing on the benefits
of an open, rules-based multilateral trading system,” Amb. Negrotto
Cambiaso said. “Any form of cooperation should mainly, and above
all, enable them to exercise fully the rights stemming from belonging
to the Organization and to benefit from the advantages of an open
multilateral trading system based on negotiated rules and predictable
procedures”.
“I
am particularly grateful to Italy for its donation to the WTO Doha
Development Agenda Global Trust Fund,” said Director-General Mike
Moore. “This contribution is in accordance with the December 2001
decision by the WTO General Council to establish a sound and
predictable basis for funding WTO Trade-Related Technical Assistance.
Italy's contribution will help to build capacity for developing
countries to participate in the multilateral trading system, advance
their interests, conclude agreements and implement them. It will also
help developing countries to participate in the current round of trade
negotiations launched by Ministers in Doha last November. The
potential benefits from this round are enormous, especially in areas
of particular interest to developing countries such as agriculture,
fisheries, services and market access. That's why developing countries
want this round concluded by the 2005 deadline”.
The
Doha Development Agenda Global Trust Fund was created following the
WTO Ministerial Conference in Doha, in November 2001, which
launched a new round of negotiations. On 11 March 2002 WTO
Member Governments pledged CHF 30 million to the fund.
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