 WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  WT/MIN(03)/W/24 
14 September 2003 
 (03-4941) 
MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE 
Fifth Session Cancún, 10 - 14 September 2003  
 
 
  
DRAFT MINISTERIAL STATEMENT 
 
 
 
1. As we conclude our Fifth Ministerial Confer ence in Cancún, we would like to express our 
deep appreciation to the Government and people of  Mexico for the excellent organization and warm 
hospitality we have received in Cancún. 
2. At this meeting we have welcomed Cambodia and Nepal as the first least-developed countries 
to accede to the WTO since its establishment. 
3. All participants have worked hard and cons tructively to make progress as required under the 
Doha mandates.  We have, indeed, made considerable progress.  However, more work needs to be done in some key areas to enable us to proceed  towards the conclusion of the negotiations in 
fulfilment of the commitments we took at Doha. 
4. We therefore instruct our officials to conti nue working on outstanding issues with a renewed 
sense of urgency and purpose and taking fully into a ccount all the views we have expressed in this 
Conference.  We ask the Chairman of the Genera l Council, working in close co-operation with the 
Director-General, to coordinate this work and to convene a meeting of the General Council at Senior 
Officials level no later than 15 December 2003 to ta ke the action necessary at that stage to enable us 
to move towards a successful and timely conclusion of the negotiations.  We shall continue to exercise 
close personal supervision of this process. 
5. We will bring with us into this new phase all th e valuable work that has been done at this 
Conference.  In those areas where we have reached  a high level of convergence on texts, we undertake 
to maintain this convergence while wo rking for an acceptable overall outcome. 
6. Notwithstanding this setback, we reaffirm a ll our Doha Declarations and Decisions and 
recommit ourselves to working to implement them fully and faithfully. 
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