WT/MIN(13)/ST/113  
11 February 2014  
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Ministerial Conference 
Ninth Session 
Bali, 3-6 December 2013  Original: English  
 
STATEMENT BY H.E. MR JARGALSAIKHAN GOZON 
MINISTER COUNSELLOR, DEPUTY PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE 
MONGOLIA  
I am honoured to be here today for the Ninth WTO Ministerial Conference. On behalf of the 
Government of Mongolia I would like to express my thanks to the Director-General, Mr. Roberto Azevêdo, and the Chairman H.E. Mr. Gita Wirjawan  as well as to the Government of Indonesia for 
their dedication and hard work in preparing for and hosting this Ministerial Conference.  
 
My delegation would like to stress that this co nference must make a significant and meaningful 
contribution to the future of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations and the 
multilateral trading system itself. Mongolia wishes to appreciate the political commitments of the 
Members to reach consensus on certain draft decisions for this Ministerial Conference that would help improve the credibility of the organization and address the legitimate concerns of its 
developing Members.  
 This Ministerial should deliver the balanced outcomes reflecting the development dimensions of the DDA negotiations towards not only a free but also—equally important—fairer multilateral trading 
system wherein developing countries are allowed some space to address the challenges of 
globalization while enhancing their capacity to climb up the global value chains.   
Looking back, we have made some accomplishments since the Geneva Ministerial.  Members are in 
an effort to harvest tangible outcomes in different areas, including trade facilitation, some elements of agriculture negotiations, and areas of special interest to developing countries.  
 
Mongolia welcomes the negotiation progress in Geneva on above mentioned areas and reaffirms our position that special consideration should be given to developing countries to ease this development process. 
 
My delegation fully supports the positions and princi ples expressed in the Ministerial Declaration of 
G-33 and the Ministerial Communiqué of LLDCs. 
 
Mongolia looks forward to the successful conclusi on of the Trade facilitation agreement, which 
should contain globally binding commitments to en sure the freedom of transit and the removal of 
transit transport impediments.  
 We call on all members to show the necessary flexibilities in finding effective solutions to transit-related obstacles faced by landlocked developing countries. Such solutions, including national 
treatment for goods in transit, would help integrate the LLDCs better into the global trading 
system.  
As a net-food importing developing country, Mongolia emphasizes the importance of food security, 
food safety and public stockholding. We would like  to call on Members to engage to work on the 
permanent solution after Bali MC9 on these issues . This idea is communicated to the Members in 
the G33 Communique. We also reiterate utmost importance to special and differential treatment 
for developing countries in the agriculture negotiations. Special Products and Special Safeguard Mechanisms remain within the scope of our key interests in the agriculture negotiations.   WT/MIN(13)/ST/113 
 
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  Mongolia strives to contribute to the facilitating negotiation process and while bearing that in mind 
the development research institutes including an international Think Tank to support the landlocked developing countries were established at the initiative of the Government of Mongolia. In this relation, we call on all Members, the landlocked countries in particular, and other partners 
to support the activities of the international Think Tank based in Ulaanbaatar.  
 As I mentioned before, this is a critical time for the DDA. I hope this Ministerial will produce a clear 
roadmap that will guide us to the destination.  
 To this end, I call on all Members to put their be st foot forward and engage in these negotiations 
with a renewed sense of purpose and commitment. 
 
We also join the members in we lcoming Yemen as a new member. 
 
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