WT/MIN(15)/14
14 December 2015
(15-6592)  Page: 1/2
Ministerial Conference 
Tenth Session 
Nairobi, 15-18 December 2015  Original: English
 
 G-331 MINISTERIAL COMMUNIQUE2 
NAIROBI, 14 DECEMBER 2015 
The following communication, dated 14 December 2015,  is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of Indonesia on behalf of the G-33. 
 
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1.  We, Ministers and Representatives of the G-33 Members met in Nairobi, Kenya, on 14 December 2015, on the occasion of the 10
th WTO Ministerial Conference to assess the current 
state of play of the agriculture talks and exch ange views on future course of actions for a 
comprehensive conclusion of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA).  
2.  We welcome the 10th WTO Ministerial Conference as an important opportunity to renew the 
collective commitment of all WTO Members to a robust, fair, and predictable rules-based 
multilateral trading system. We express our sincer e appreciation to the Government and people of 
Kenya for their hospitality and excellent work in hosting this Conference.  
3.  We reiterate the importance of agriculture fo r ensuring food security, livelihood security, and 
rural development in developing Members including Least-Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small, 
Vulnerable Economies (SVEs) as enshrined in Doha and Hong Kong mandates. We emphasize the need for taking into consideration of the development component of the agriculture negotiations 
and the importance of delivering on the on-going reform in agriculture and the completion of the 
DDA including the elimination of global trade distortions that hinder productivity and competitiveness of hundreds of millions of poor farmers in the developing world.  
4.  In the face of increased volatility of food pr oductions and prices on the global market since the 
food and financial crises in 2008, we underline the importance of protecting the small and resource-poor producers from market volatilities through public stockholding for food security 
purposes and Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM) in the developing country Members’ food 
security, livelihood security and rural developm ent strategy. We also urge Members to remain 
cognizant of the subsistence nature of agricultur e in most developing country Members including 
LDCs and SVEs.  
Nairobi Deliverables  
 5.  We recognize the Members’ collective resolve to advance negotiations where concrete progress 
can be achieved including focusing on elements of  the DDA and with a view to achieve an outcome 
that would among others rectify some of the gross imbalances in the existing WTO rules on agriculture. To this end, the G-33 is making its utmost efforts through its active engagement and proposals on SSM, as part of its quest for an effective tool agreeable for all Members in the context 
of achieving meaningful, development-centered balanced and credible deliverables of MC10. 
                                               
1 Members of the G-33 are Antigua and Barbuda, Barbad os, Belize, Benin, Botswana, Plurinational State 
of Bolivia, China, Côte d’Ivoire, Co ngo, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republ ic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, 
Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya,  Republic of Korea, Madagascar, 
Mauritius, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pa kistan, Panama, the Philippines, Peru, Saint Kitts and 
Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Chinese Taipei, Tanzania, 
Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Zambia and Zimbabwe.  
2 Without prejudice to the position of Peru. WT/MIN(15)/14 
 
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  The G-33 also remains committed to implement the Bali Ministerial Decision of 7 December 2013 
on Public Stockholding for Food Security Purp oses (WT/MIN(13)/38-WT/L/913) by putting forward 
a proposal on this issue with a view to engage constructively to negotiate and make all concerted efforts to agree and adopt a permanent solution by December 2015 as mandated by the General 
Council Decision WT/L/939, dated 27 November 2014. We underline that any permanent solution 
should cover the current and future programs of developing country Members. 
6.  We recognize the Members’ engagement in discussing the G-33 proposals on SSM and on 
public stockholding for food security purposes. While we fully respect each Member’s rights and 
positions in the negotiation, we express our deep disappointment that in the Geneva process, Members failed to make meaningful progress for convergence, despite all the constructive engagement and flexibilities that have been demonstrated by the G-33 Members. We, thus, 
strongly urge Members to find ways to address the impasse, based on the Doha Ministerial 
Declaration and subsequent Declarations and Decisions thereafter. Any political will to resolve the impasse must be reflected through flexibilities in the negotiations. All the WTO Members must be 
cognizant of the the negative impact of failure to deliver concrete outcomes in Nairobi on the 
credibility of the WTO as the negotiating forum for multilateral trade rules that could address development challenges faced by developing country Members. 
7.  We reiterate the importance of maintaining special and differential treatment in the areas of 
export competition. Negotiations in this area should be conducted by taking into account the need for balanced, development-centered and credible outcomes in Nairobi. 
Post Nairobi and the G-33 
 
8.  We are of the view that WTO Members shall continue seeking a comprehensive conclusion of 
the DDA after Nairobi. We underline that the special and differential treatment for developing 
country Members including LDCs and SVEs in the agriculture negotiations must be operationally 
effective to enable them to effectively take account of their development needs. We urge Members to continue discussing critical tools for addressing food security, livelihood security and rural 
development concerns in the Post-Nairobi works. We, therefore, commit ourselves and strongly 
urge other WTO Members to continue delivering the DDA in the area of agriculture based on the Draft Agriculture Modalities of December 2008.  
9.  In the broader Doha agricultural reform, we call Members to resume negotiation on the 
domestic support and market access pillars and cont inue to seek a level playing field in global 
agricultural trade. We underscore the need to se cure Special Products (SP) for developing country 
Members whenever discussions on tariff reduction on agriculture products resume in the market 
access pillar. 
10.  The G-33 shall remain resilient and a dynami c group representing the evolving needs of the 
hundreds of millions of subsistence farmers in the developing world. Thus, we reaffirm our critical 
and the complementary role in facilitating and ensuring that the global agricultural reform are 
attuned to needs of all developing country Members as well as in establishing a strong, fair, and market oriented rules-based multilateral trading framework through meaningful and effective special and differential treatment for the food security, livelihood security and rural development 
of the developing world. We are open to expl ore future cooperation on other areas in WTO 
agriculture negotiations where group Members see common interests and shared objectives. 
11.  Finally, we renew our commitment to engage actively and constructively in the negotiations, 
with the aim of addressing the remaining DDA issues. In doing so, we will continue to respect the 
Doha mandate and its development dimension. 
Nairobi, 14 December 2015 
 
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