. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONWT/MIN(01)/ST/143
12 November 2001
(01-5751)
MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE
Fourth SessionDoha, 9 - 13 November 2001Original:  English
SUDAN
Statement by H.E. Mr Badr Eldin Suleiman
Advisor, Presidency of the Republic and National Chief Negotiator
for the Accession of Sudan to the WTO
(Speaking as an Observer)
I would like to express our gratitude and deep appreciation thanks to His Highness Sheikh
Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of the State of Qatar, the Government, and the People of Qatar fortheir warm hospitality and excellent facilities and arrangements for the conference.
Attaining the universality of the multilatera l trading system, would undoubtedly be a major
objective.  It would indeed entail inclusive global partnership and affirming that human rights
including the right to develop and freedom from pov erty and, exclusion are universal, indivisible and
interdependent.  We want to see human rights safegu ards built into TRIPS, agreements, together with
the resource rights of indigenous societies.
It is unfortunate that the benefits of global markets integration are accruing to the powerful.
Smaller and poorer countries share little and in most cases encounter net losses.  The potential
benefits of such process on the issues of growth and equity are yet to be vigorously demonstrated.
We feed assured by the fact that GATT had always been in its practice following the view of
application of its articles and reinterpreting them in the light of experience.  In this context, we seek to
affirm that developing and LDCs will not be required to undertake any commitment and concession
inconsistent with their individual development, fi nancial and trading needs.  We also seek flexible
application of the right to special and differential treatment.
Sudan is pursuing vigorously market-based economic reforms, that involve deep process of
economic restructuring, upholding private property rights, due process of law and access to judicial
review.  We are opening our economy to partners in trade and development from all over the globe.
Our historical situation demands that market reforms should provide the tools for expanding
and consolidating our national production capacities.
We understand that enlightened social policies are essential to consolidate this historical
undertaking;  the kind of social policies designed to alleviate poverty and fight discrimination andexclusion.
We call upon our partners to facilitate and accelerate the process of accession of all aspirant
weaker countries and to demonstrate powerful and sympathetic support for that matter.
We wish to emphasize that industrialization and focusing on the multifunctionality of
agricultural development lay in the heart of our agenda.WT/MIN(01)/ST/143
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Finally we extend our warmest congratulations to the People's Republic of China, to the WTO
and to the world at large for the accession of the People's Republic of China to the WTO.  Indeed a
new dimension has been laid by such historic accession, not merely because of China's size or weight
in global trade but essentially for greater symbolic and actual status of the People's Republic of Chinain the midst of the developing nations and its unique contributions to the world's civilization.
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