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ORGANIZATIONWT/MIN(03)/W/3
26 August 2003
(03-4454)
MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE
Fifth Session
Cancún, 10 - 14 September 2003Original:  English
COMMUNICATION FROM THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC
The following communication, dated 25 August 2003, has been received by the Chairman of
the General Council from the Kyrgyz Republic with the request that it be circulated to Members.
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On behalf of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic I would like to express my sincere
appreciation of your leadership as the Chairman of the General Council of the World Trade
Organization and let me assure you in my personal respect to you in this respect.
My country attaches great importance to the work preceding the 5th WTO Ministerial
Conference at Cancun.  The Kyrgyz government has highly appreciated the work that has been done
so far in all negotiating bodies and the General Council and I express my deepest consideration to all
WTO Members for their tremendous efforts in getting to the positive and balanced outcome
acceptable to all.
As it is known to Members, Kyrgyz delegation was actively involved in the process of
negotiations, especially in the negotiations reflected in the Doha Work Programme such as the
negotiations on trade in services, market access for non-agricultural goods and agriculture.
Moreover, this delegation was one who has explicitly supported the initiation of the new
round of multilateral trade negotiations at Doha having had in mind that the present round ofnegotiations would be beneficial to all participants.
However, with blatant disappointment this delegation expresses its concern over the absence
of appropriate treatment being given to this particular WTO Member in the course of ongoing
negotiations despite the extensive market access commitments of the Kyrgyz Republic, includingthose undertaken on a voluntary basis recorded in the following documents related to the accession to
the General Agreement on Tariff and Trade 1994, General Agreement on Trade in Services:
WT/ACC/KGZ/26, ACC/KGZ/26/Add.1, WT/ACC/KGZ/ 26/Add.2, and Annexes through Parts I –
IV.  The extensive commitments in agriculture related support programmes are reflected in special
parts of the above mentioned Annexes: Commitments Limiting Subsidization in Section I:  DomesticSupport: Total AMS Commitments, in Section II: - Export Subsidies: Budgetary Outlay and Quantity
Reduction Commitments, in Section III:  Commitments Limiting the Scope of Export Subsidies.
The Kyrgyz Republic whose membership in the WTO became effective in 1998 is seeking
recognition as a developing newly acceded Member of the WTO with extensive market access
commitments undertaken during the accession process and treatment in the course of current
negotiations equal to those WTO Members to which reference is made in paragraph 9 of the Doha
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The extensive market access commitments undertaken by the Kyrgyz Republic in the services
area as a part of the overall package of its accession commitments to the WTO have been clearly
recognized by several WTO Members in the Counci l for Trade in Services in Special Session and
contained in the minutes of the meeting held on 5 March 2003.
All necessary background documentation concerning present economic and social situation in
the Kyrgyz Republic reflecting difficulties the Kyrgyz Government is facing will be submitted to
Members' delegations during the Conference.
Let me reiterate, once again, my highest consideration to you, as well as all the WTO
Members.
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