Fourth WTO Conference - Doha 2001
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The Fourth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference was held in Doha, Qatar, from 9 to 14 November 2001. The Ministerial Conference is the organization’s highest-level decision-making body. It meets at least once every two years, as required by the Marrakech Agreement, the WTO’s founding charter.

The Doha Declaration provides the mandate for negotiations on a range of subjects, including agriculture, subsidies, textiles and clothing, technical barriers to trade, trade-related investment measures and rules of origin. Many other implementation issues of concern to developing countries have not been settled, however. For these issues, Ministers agreed in Doha on a future work programme for addressing these matters.

However, international civil society rejected the legitimacy of the Doha Declaration “as the result of an outrageous process of manipulation that is totally unacceptable for an international organisation”.

More than a hundred NGOs and social movements participating in a post-Doha meeting on the WTO in Brussels on 7-9 December 2001 condemned the Doha Ministerial Conference for being a Development Disaster (“everything but development”, according to the statement). They were also appalled by the extremely manipulative tactics used by major powers and the Secretariat to push through a Declaration which lacked public legitimacy.

The Fifth Ministerial Conference held in Mexico in September 2003 was intended to be a revision of the post-Doha negotiations, but it ended up being a failure after the opposition of developing countries delegates.




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