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WT/MIN(17)/INF/16  
 
31 October 2017  
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Ministerial Conference  
Eleventh Session  
Buenos Aires, 10 -13 December 2017    
 
NOTE TO DELEGATIONS  
ARRANGEMENTS FOR SPE AKERS IN THE PLENARY  SESSION  
As at past Ministerial Conferences, the Plenary Session of the Eleventh Ministerial Conference will 
provide an opportunity for Ministers to make general statements under an Agenda item entitled 
"Overview of Activities of the WTO", in line with the Procedur es adopted by the General Council on 
15 November 1995 (WT/L/105). These prepared statements will be delivered in accordance with 
the List of Speakers which will open for inscription on Monday, 6 November 2017 . 
 
1  INSCRIPTION  
Inscriptions for the List of Spea kers will take place via the  online registration system . Delegations 
are reminded that the MC11 Delegation Coordinator has to be nominated in order to register a 
Speaker for the Plenary Session. MC11 Delegation Coordinators are invited to consult the onlin e 
registration system (see WT/MIN(17)/INF/8/Rev.1) where they will find the necessary information. 
Inscriptions will take place on the basis of a choice of half -day preferences. While every effort will 
be made to accommodate delegations' first preferences,  delegations are kindly requested to show 
some flexibility in light of a limited number of slots available each day in the Speakers' List. The 
Secretariat, in conjunction with the Ministerial Conference Chairperson, will subsequently establish 
the List of Speakers, and MC11 Delegation Coordinators will be notified by e -mail later in the 
process of the exact date and time their Minister will be invited to deliver their statement.  
 
2  DELIVERY OF STATEMEN TS 
Ministers wishing to make a statement will be requested  to do so from a lectern on the podium in 
the Pacífico A Meeting Room located in the Hilton Buenos Aires Hotel. In order to facilitate the 
sequence of speakers, seats close to the podium will be reserved for the next speakers. Speakers 
will be invited by W TO Secretariat staff to move to these reserved seats while the preceding 
statements are being made.  
 
The Chairperson's List of Speakers for each half -day session will be made available to the 
delegations concerned, by the Plenary Office. The Chairperson wi ll expect the cooperation and 
understanding of all delegations in the event of unexpected and last -minute changes that may 
have to be made to the List.  
 
3  LENGTH OF STATEMENTS  
Interventions in the Plenary Session are limited to 3 minutes per speaker. A so -called traffic light 
system will be in operation to facilitate adherence to the allotted time period. Longer statements 
can be submitted to the WTO Secretariat for subsequent circulation, as set out below.  
 
4  DISSEMINATION OF STA TEMENTS  
As at past Ministerial Conferences, all public documents emanating from the Ministerial Conference 
will be posted on the Ministerial Conference Website at http://www.wto.org/mc11 . 
 
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  Ministers' statements submitted to the Secretariat well in advance of the speaking time will be 
posted on the Website after delivery. In this respect, delegations are requested to transmit 
statements, as soon as possible after delivery, in Microsoft Word f ormat only, to the Secretariat via 
e-mail to the following address: mc11statements@wto.org . 
 
All statements in the Plenary Session will subsequently be circulated as Conference documents in 
the three WTO offici al languages, including statements longer than those delivered. Statements by 
Ministers not wishing to take the floor in the Plenary Session can also be submitted to the WTO 
Secretariat for circulation.  
 
For any questions or queries, please contact:  
Ms Tis seree Coppa  
E-mail: mc11speakerslist@wto.org  
E-mail: mc11statements@wto.org  
 
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