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ICTSD Activities In Hong Kong

As during the past five WTO Ministerial Conferences in Cancun, Doha, Singapore, Geneva and Seattle, ICTSD provided its audiences with tools for a better understanding of the issues at the crossroads between trade and sustainable development in the lead-up, duration, and aftermath of the WTO Ministerial. During the Hong Kong Ministerial, ICTSD engaged in the following activities:

• Hong Kong Trade and Development Symposium. 13 - 17 December 2005, Hong Kong Exhibitions Centre
  
  

• Cotton Day: What to Expect from the Hong Kong Ministerial Conference? 12 December, Hong Kong Jockey Club
  
  

• BRIDGES Daily Updates on the Ministerial Conference. As in past Conferences, ICTSD provided multilingual printed and electronic versions of BRIDGES Daily Updates on-site and via ICTSD's and its partners' websites and listserv services. At Hong Kong, together with its regional partners, ICTSD produced BRIDGES Daily Updates in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic and Russian.
  
  
• Doha Round Briefing Series Vol. 4: Hong Kong Update (Available in English, French and Portugese), November 2005.
  
  

• BRIDGES Trade BioRes Special Hong Kong Issue
  

  
  
• BRIDGES Weekly Trade News Digest and BRIDGES Monthly Review provided news and in-depth analysis of the issues leading up to and following the Ministerial.
  

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Key news and resources from the Hong Kong Ministerial.

• Draft Ministerial Text, Revision 2 (18 December 2005)
  
  
• Draft Ministerial Text on Services (17 December 2005)
  
  
• EU Statement on Revised Draft Hong Kong Ministerial Text (18 December 2005)
  
  
• Draft Ministerial Text, Revision 1 and Corregendum (17 December 2005)
  
  
• Statement by Amorim on Behalf of G20 (17 December 2005)
  
  
• Draft Text on NAMA (16 December 2005)
  
  
• EU Green Room Proposal on Services (16 December 2005)
  
  
• ACP Group Proposal on Development (16 December 2005)
  
  
• LDC Proposal on Agriculture, Cotton and NAMA (16 December 2005)
  
  
• Kenyan Proposal on TRIPS Issues (16 December 2005)
  
  
• Small and Vulnerable Economies Ministerial Meeting Communique (16 December 2005)
  
  
• Compilation of texts received on NAMA as of 15 December (16 December 2005)
  
  
• EP Paper on Services (16 December 2005)
  
  
• EU Says No To Export Subsidies End-Date (16 December 2005)
  
  
• Director General Proposal To Eliminate Export Subsidies by 2010 (16 December 2005)
  
  
• G90 Proposal For Services Text (16 December 2005)
  
  
• Joint Statement by Cairns Group and G20 on Agriculture (16 December 2005)
  
  
• Joint Statement by G20, G33, LDC, ACP and African Group on coordination efforts (16 December 2005)
  
  
• African Group Draft Text for NAMA Section of Draft Ministerial Declaration (16 December 2005)
  
  
• ACP Press Release: Commodity concerns threaten to derail WTO talks (16 December 2005)
  
  
• Chair's Draft Text for Development Package (15 December 2005)
  
  
• Draft Compilation Agriculture Text (15 December 2005)
  
  
• Produits Tropicaux et Produits de Remplacement des Cultures Illicites (French) (Spanish) (Tropical Products and Products that Replace Narcotics), communication from several Latin American countries (15 December 2005)
  
  
• Minister's Statement on MFN Trade Liberalization; Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua,
  Panama, Peru, Paraguay, Pakistan and Uruguay (15 December 2005)
  
  
• African Group Proposal On S&D Treatment (15 December 2005)
  
  
• Kenya Proposal on Aid for Trade (15 December 2005)
  
  
• Duty-Free Quota-Free Market Access for LDCs Draft (15 December 2005)
  
  
• US Trade Representative Rob Portman Statement on LDC Initiative and Textiles (15 December)
  
  
• US Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns Statement on US and EU Farm Proposals (15 December)
  
  
• G10 Proposal On Sensitive Products (14 December 2005)
  
  
• Statement by LDC Chair on Free Market Access for LDCs (14 December 2005)
  
  
• Communication from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru on the Development Round (14 December 2005)
  
  
• Portman Statement in Special Session on Cotton and Bananas: "Subsidy Cuts Insufficient To Help West African Cotton Producers" 14 December

• Final Draft Ministerial Text for the WTO's Sixth Ministerial Conference (7 December 2005)
  
  
• WTO Website: reporting from Hong Kong, Day 3: Tonga all set to join, as movement seen in talks on least-developed countries (16 December 2005)
  
  
• Live Webcasting of Press Conferences at Hong Kong Ministerial
  
  
• Environment @ Hong Kong
  (Bridges Trade BioRes, 9 December 2005)