HC Deb 16 July 2003 vol 409 cc383-4W
Syd Rapson

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what steps she will take to ensure that at the next World Trade Organisation meeting the issues to which developing countries give priority are resolved before consideration is given to the new issues, objected to by developing countries at Doha. [125903]

Mr. Mike O'Brien

We agree that it is necessary to address developing countries' interests as a matter of priority to ensure that the Doha Development Agenda is truly a development round.

We hope to see the WTO Ministerial in Cancun secure agreement to a package of measures of interest to developing countries, including progress on agriculture and agreement on TRIPS and Public Health and on a series of measures on special and differential treatment.