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The Third WTO Ministerial Conference
The Third WTO Ministerial Conference was held in Seattle, Washington State, US between 30 November and 3 December 1999.
See also:
Seattle NGO Symposium on
international trade issues in the first decades of the next century
Other WTO
Ministerials:
> Cancún 10-14 Sep.
2003
>Doha 10?4 Nov. 2001
> Geneva 18 & 20 May 1998
> Singapore 9?3 Dec. 1996
Meeting
summaries
> Summary of December 3
meetings
> Summary of December 2
meetings
> Summary of December 1 meetings
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Press releases and speeches
Press releases and speeches on the ministerial, issued before and during the meeting
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Background material
> Briefing notes on the
ministerial and the main issues
> Seattle: what’s at stake - text of a WTO booklet
(in English only)
> Criticism, yes ...
misinformation, no! Incorrect information about the WTO currently
on a number of websites.
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Members' proposals
Submitted
to the WTO General Council in preparation for the Seattle Ministerial
Conference.
(Clicking on the hyperlinks will produce the lists in a new window as
the result of a search of the document database. Please allow a
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First
447 proposals ?
August 1998 to July 1999
>
Second
355 proposals ?
August 1999 to November 1999
Summary of proposals
?
informal note compiled by the WTO Secretariat. Download
in MS Word format
(224 pages, 1.31MB). To find specific proposals
mentioned in this document, search the online documents database
inserting
relevant document numbers, countries, etc in the form.
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Statements
In this section you can download or view on-line ministers’ statements to the conference plenary.
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Other documents
More Ministerial documents are available in the online documents database. See instructions on right on how to search and download these documents.
- WT/GC/W/ with the title reference *PREPARATIONS FOR THE 1999 MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE* ?preparatory documents
- WT/MIN(99)/ Ministerial Conference Seattle ?general documents
- WT/MIN(99)/INF/ Ministerial Conference Seattle ?background information on the Ministerial
- WT/MIN(99)/SR/ Ministerial Conference Seattle ?summary records
- WT/MIN(99)/ST/ Ministerial Conference Seattle ?statements
- WT/MIN(99)/W/ Ministerial Conference Seattle ?working documents
How to search and download official documents
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