WT/MIN(24)/ST/57  
 
26 February  2024 
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Ministerial Conference  
Thirteenth Session  
Abu Dhabi, 26 -29 February 2024  Original: English  
 
STATEMENT BY H.E. MR SILVINO AUGUSTO JOSÉ MORENO  
MINISTER OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE  
MOZAMBIQUE  
It is an honour for the People and Government of Mozambique to join and attend the WTO 's 
13th Ministerial Conference in Abu Dhabi.  Allow me Chairperson to express my salute and gratitude 
to the Government of United Arab Emirates for hosting the 13th WTO Ministerial Conference.   
 
It is a great pleasure and very important occasion , as Member, to be a part of the discussi ons for 
the topics of suc h relevance to the Multilateral Trading System, considering their significant 
importance for the Sustainable Development of economies. These priorities reflect a commitment to 
strengthening the rules -based of the multilateral system.   
 
The agenda under our  consideration in this MC13 require from us to addressing  in deeply  the 
unavoidable issues need ed for improving the effectiveness of the multilateral trading system, 
especially the world has been resiliently facing recessions that limit a  balanced competit iveness of 
economies, which must seek in integration a sustainable way out to face the challenges of food 
insecurity, in the construction of a global trade balance that is not very multilateral and the risk of 
inefficiency in trade facilitation logistics c hains with an impact on the limitted countries inclusion.   
 
Mozambique is strongly committed to the multilateral trading system and supports the reform 
process to revitalize the WTO. The graduation of LDCs and the investment from developed countries 
contri butes to transforming the economies of developing countries through industrialization, is 
critical for an integrated international system, which function perfectly and accelerate the 
achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.   
 
WTO, through the mult ilateral approach to Trade and Development, must continue to seek and 
promote the availability of the resource and platforms that support schemes for the recovery, 
strengthening and competitive dynamism of the global economy considering the structure of th e 
Least Developed Countries.  
 
The acceptance of WTO Members to the Fisheries Subsidies Agreement will truly deliver trade 
sustainability. We believe that improving existing rules on subsidies is important to ensure a level 
playing field in international trade and the inclusion of MSME 's value chain.  
 
We need at this Thirteenth WTO Ministerial Conference to reinforce the adequate approach to better 
deal with Agriculture, Development, Dispute Settlement Reform, Work Programme on Electronic 
Commerce, Fisheries Subsidies, Trade and Sustainable Development (including Trade and Industrial 
Policy and Policy Space for Industrial Development), to enabling greater integration and functioning 
of multilateral trade.   
 
It is our responsibility as Members of the WTO to take advantage of this opportunity to decide on a 
better multilateral response to the challenges that global trade has been facing .  
 
It is within these assumptions that Mozambique reiterate s its support to the Minis terial Declarations 
submit ted by the African Group, LDC 's Group and OACPs, whose approach emphasizes the need for 
more transparency and inclusion as a structuring part of the sustainable and effective matrix of the 
multilateral trade system.   
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  It is this p osition that we are considering and prioritizing in the ongoing process of our Fourth Review 
Trade Policy to be presented in July this year.   
 
Finally, but not least, Mozambique welcomes the strong and sustained efforts made by the 
authorities of Timor -Leste and the Comoros since the establishment of the working parties to 
complete their accession to the WTO, and today we have the privilege to celebrate this important 
accomplishment at the 13th Ministerial Conference of the WTO.   
 
To conclude, the adoption of the Declaration of this 13th Ministerial Conference, which Mozambique 
supports, is an important contribution to the structural construction of the sustainable and inclusive 
agenda of the multilateral trade system.   
 
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