Global Trade Negotiations by Harvard University’s Center for International Development

Trade Observatory by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Document Center (documents related to the WTO Ministerial - Cancun)

The Road to Cancún: CAFOD’s workplan on the WTO

Friends of the Earth International Cancun Web Special

International Forum on Globalization

Greenpeace: World Trade page

Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa

Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Canada

Global Network - Asia

Indymedia México

cancunmedia.net

Business for Cancun, by the International Trade Centre, UNCTAD/WTO.

Dakar - Cancun, by Collectif Stratégies Alimentaires asbl.

Heinrich Böll Foundation

FoEI’s Cancun Ministerial website. The website includes: glossary of wto terms, FoEI position papers, foe’s team in cancun (contact mobile numbers for many people will be online next week), media contacts etcThe Spanish version can be found at: http://www.foei.org/esp/cancun.

Bienvenidos a Cancun

Radio Cancun. IATP is launching an Internet radio service called RadioCancun.org, which begins broadcasting July 16th with a special presentation of Mexican farmersand peasant leaders discussing the impact of global trade, NAFTA and the WTO on Mexico. RadioCancun.org will present weekly news summaries and special reports through August. In September we will begin broadcasting daily from Cancun and cover the WTO Ministerial from start to finish. Check back often for breaking news and events.

WT/MIN(03)/W/24
14 September 2003

MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE
Fifth Session
Cancún, 10 - 14 September 2003

1. As we conclude our Fifth Ministerial Conference 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 constructively 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 continue working on outstanding issues with a renewed sense of urgency and purpose and taking fully into account all the views we have expressed in this Conference. We ask the Chairman of the General 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 take 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 the 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 working for an acceptable overall outcome.

6. Notwithstanding this setback, we reaffirm all our Doha Declarations and Decisions and recommit ourselves to working to implement them fully and faithfully.