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ORGANIZATIONWT/MIN(03)/ST/59
11 September 2003
(03-4818)
MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE
Fifth Session
Cancún, 10 - 14 September 2003Original:  English
MONGOLIA
Statement by H.E. Mr Chimiddori Ganzorig,
Minister for Industry and Trade
Please allow me, on behalf of the Government  of Mongolia and on my own, to express
sincere gratitude to the Government of Mexico and the World Trade Organization Secretariat for
organizing this Conference and bringing together Trade Ministers of the world.
The world community is closely observing the Ministerial Conference. The people of the
world expect and hope for positive outcomes of the Conference that would further a fair economic
globalization.  They expect from us, the Minister s of Trade, the decisions, which would meet the
interests of all Members of the World Trade Organization, particularly of developing countries.
The Doha Development Agenda has created more favourable conditions for the Members to
further cooperation in trade and its development.  Despite the Members' efforts to implement the
Development Agenda, there still remain issues that need consensus on.
Among such issues is the Agreement on Agricult ure.  In this respect, we consider that
agricultural liberalization needs to be taken into ac count not only within the framework of trade, it has
to consider, thus, be coordinated with such issues of vital importance to developing countries as
poverty alleviation, food security, rural development and improving the livelihood of the rural
population.
Taking this opportunity, I would like to congratulate and extend gratitude to those Member
countries, which worked hard after the Doha Ministerial and put efforts in removing barriers to free
trade in terms of cutting their high tariffs, decreasing export subsidies and domestic support.
Mongolia attributes a great significance to the issues of concern to developing countries,
especially small and vulnerable ones among them.  Dependence on few export commodities and thedifficulties associated therewith are the main issues of concern for these countries.  Therefore,
developing countries are urged to improve the access of such countries to their markets, decrease and
eliminate, in the future, domestic support provided  to farmers in their countries and to substantiate
special and differential treatment to developing countries.  We shall be protecting our common
interests through our involvement in the multilateral negotiations.
One of the issues of utmost importance to Mongolia's trade with other countries is transit
transportation.  This is a common problem that land-locked developing countries face.  Thus, we
deem it necessary to address the issue within the scope of the WTO negotiations so that respective
agreements of the WTO incorporate necessary provisions as to reducing transit transportation costs
and providing land-locked developing countries with more preferential treatment.  A special note has
to be taken of the appeal from the Ministerial Conference on transit transportation taken place inWT/MIN(03)/ST/59
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Almaty, Kazakhstan in August 2003.  It has called for the importance of addressing trade-related
issues of transit transportation within the scope of the WTO negotiations.
On behalf of the Government of Mongolia, I would like to declare our full support for
recommendations and actions under the Work Programme on Small Economies, which would allowgreater and fuller integration of small and vulnerable economies into the broader framework of
multilateral trading system, and a more active participation, therefore, in their implementation.
Taking this opportunity, please allow me to congratulate our colleagues from Nepal and
Cambodia on their successful accession to the WTO, as well as to express our support for those
countries, which are working on their accession, including Russia and land-locked developing
countries.
We, the delegation of Mongolia, are ready to closely collaborate with our counterparts for
successful and fruitful accomplishments of the Doha Round Negotiations.
We wish that the Conference be successful.
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