Fifth Informal Consultation between the Trade Committee and Civil Society Organisations, 20 October 2003

The topic for the Fifth informal consultation was "Assessment of the 5th WTO Ministerial Meeting in Cancún and the way forward for the DDA". The discussion was structured into two areas of focus, as follows:

Morning session: How will work resume in Geneva after Cancún?

Afternoon session: What will be the relationship between open multilateralism and regionalism?

Summary Record of the Consultation:

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Background Documentation:

OECD Policy Brief entitled "Regionalism and the Multilateral Trading System"

Submissions by Civil Society Organisations:

• Trading Away Health: Intellectual Property and Access To Medicines in the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Agreement - Submission by Médecins Sans Frontières
• Doha Derailed: A Progress Report on TRIPS and Access to Medicines: Médecins Sans Frontières Briefing for the 5th WTo Ministerial Conference, Cancun 2003
• BIAC Statement for the Consultations with the OECDTrade Committee
• WWF’s Preliminary Recommendations to the OECD Following the Failure of the Fifth WTO Ministerial 
• The Doha Development Round: A Way Forward - Submission by Oxfam International
• The Cancun WTO Ministerial Meeting, September 2003, What Happened? What does it Mean for Development? - Submission by the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD)