. /.  RESTRICTED  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  WT/MIN(05)/SR/2 
23 February 2006 
 (06-0761) 
MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE 
Sixth Session Hong Kong, 13 - 18 December 2005  
 
  
SUMMARY RECORD OF THE SECOND MEETING 
 
Held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China
 
on Wednesday, 14 December 2005, at 10 a.m.  
 
Chairperson :  The Honourable Dame Billie Miller (Barbados) 
 
Subject : Overview of Activities of the WTO (Agenda Item 1) 
 
 The Chairperson  invited Ministers and other speakers wishing to make statements under this 
Agenda item to do so in a single presentation.  She re called that Rule 22 of the Rules of Procedure for 
Sessions of the Ministerial Conference (WT/L/161)  provided the possibility for the Chairperson to 
limit the time for statements, with the consent of th e meeting.  As indicated in an Information Note 
circulated to Members on 29 November (WT/MIN( 05)/INF/11), statements should be limited to a 
maximum of five minutes.  In order to provide e quitable opportunity to all speakers to express their 
views in the Plenary meetings, she proposed that delegations agree to limit all statements to a 
maximum of five minutes.  Delegations who so wi shed could circulate longer presentations as formal 
documents of the Ministerial Conference.  
 
 The Ministerial C onference took note  of the statement and so agreed . 
  The following statements were made:   
Singapore HE Mr Lim Hng Kiang 
Minister for Trade and Industry WT/MIN(05)/ST/1 
Switzerland HE Mr Joseph Deiss 
Federal Councillor 
Head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs WT/MIN(05)/ST/2 
United States HE Mr Robert Portman 
United States Trade Representative WT/MIN(05)/ST/3 
Qatar HE Sheik Mohammed Bin Al-Thani 
Minister of Economy and Commerce WT/MIN(05)/ST/4 
European Communities Right Honourable Peter Mandelson  
Commissioner for Trade WT/MIN(05)/ST/5 
United Kingdom on Behalf of 
the Presidency of the European Union Right Honourable Alan Johnson 
Secretary of State for Trade and Industry WT/MIN(05)/ST/6 WT/MIN(05)/SR/2 
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  Kenya HE Dr Mukhisa Kituyi 
Minister for Trade and Industry WT/MIN(05)/ST/7 
China HE Mr Bo Xilai 
Minister of Commerce WT/MIN(05)/ST/59 
Brazil HE Mr Celso Amorim 
Minister of External Relations WT/MIN(05)/ST/8 
France HE Mrs Christine Lagarde  
Minister for Foreign Trade WT/MIN(05)/ST/9 
Argentina HE Mr Jorge E. Taiana  
Minister for Foreign Relations, International Trade and Worship WT/MIN(05)/ST/10 
Thailand HE Dr Uttama Savanayana 
Vice Minister of Commerce WT/MIN(05)/ST/11 
Germany HE Dr Bernd Pfaffenbach  
State Secretary 
Federal Ministry of Economics and 
Technology WT/MIN(05)/ST/12 
Japan HE Mr Taro Aso  
Minister of Foreign Affairs WT/MIN(05)/ST/13 
Hong Kong, China Ms Denise Yue 
Permanent Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology - (Commerce and Industry) WT/MIN(05)/ST/14 
Egypt HE Mr Rachid Mohamed Rachid 
Minister of Foreign Trade and Industry WT/MIN(05)/ST/16 
World Bank 
 (Observer) Mr Danny Leipziger 
Vice President and Head of Network  WT/MIN(05)/ST/15 
International Monetary Fund  
(Observer) Ms Anne O. Krueger 
First Deputy Managing Director WT/MIN(05)/ST/143 
 
   The meeting adjourned
 at 12.30 p.m. 
  
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