WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  WT/MIN(05)/INF/7 
31 August 2005 
 (05-3802) 
MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE 
Sixth Session Hong Kong, 13 – 18 December 2005  
 
 
PROVISIONAL LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
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(as at 30 August 2005) 
  
 
I. MEMBERS (148) 
 
Albania Denmark Kenya Philippines 
Angola Djibouti Korea, Republic of Poland Antigua and Barbuda Dominica Kuwait Portugal 
Argentina Dominican Republic Kyrgyz Republic Qatar 
Armenia Ecuador Latvia Romania Australia Egypt Lesotho Rwanda 
Austria El Salvador Liechtenstein Saint Kitts and Nevis 
Bahrain Estonia Lithuania Saint Lucia Bangladesh European Communities Lu xembourg Saint Vincent and the 
Barbados Fiji  Macao, China  Grenadines 
Belgium Finland Madagascar Senegal 
Belize Former Yugoslav  Malawi Sierra Leone 
Benin  Republic of Macedonia Malaysia Singapore Bolivarian Republic of France Maldives Slovak Republic 
 Venezuela Gabon Mali Slovenia 
Bolivia The Gambia Malta Solomon Islands Botswana Georgia Mauritania South Africa 
Brazil Germany Mauritius Spain 
Brunei Darussalam Ghana Mexico Sri Lanka Bulgaria Greece Moldova Suriname 
Burkina Faso Grenada Mongolia Swaziland 
Burundi Guatemala Morocco Sweden 
Cambodia Guinea Mozambique Switzerland 
Cameroon Guinea-Bissau My anmar Chinese Taipei 
Canada Guyana Namibia Tanzania Central African Republic Haiti Nepal Thailand 
Chad Honduras Netherlands Togo 
Chile Hong Kong, China New Zealand Trinidad and Tobago China Hungary Nicaragua Tunisia 
Colombia Iceland Niger Turkey 
Congo India Nigeria Uganda 
Costa Rica Indonesia Norway United Arab Emirates 
Côte d'Ivoire Ireland Oman United Kingdom Croatia Israel Pakistan United States 
Cuba Italy Panama Uruguay 
Cyprus Jamaica Papua New Guinea Zambia Czech Republic Japan Paraguay Zimbabwe 
Democratic Republic of  Jordan Peru  
 the Congo        
                                                      
1 This list will be updated as necessary. WT/MIN(05)/INF/7 
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 II. OBSERVER GOVERNMENTS (39) 
 
Afghanistan Ethiopia San Marino 
Algeria Holy See Sao Tome and Principe 
Andorra Iran Saudi Arabia Azerbaijan Iraq Serbia 
Bahamas Kazakhstan Seychelles 
Belarus Lao People's Democratic Republic Sudan 
Bhutan Lebanon Tajikistan 
Bosnia and Herzegovina Liberia Tonga Cape Verde Libya Ukraine 
Comoros Montenegro Uzbekistan 
Cook Islands Niue Vanuatu Equatorial Guinea Russian  Federation Viet Nam 
Eritrea Samoa Yemen 
  
III. OBSERVER INTERNATIONAL INTERGOV ERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (76) 
 
Advisory Centre on WTO Law (ACWL) 
African, Caribbean and Pacifi c Group of States (ACP) 
African Union (AU) Andean Community  
Arab Authority for Agricultural Investment and Development (AAAID) 
Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) Asian Development Bank (ADB) 
Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) 
Caribbean Community Secretariat (CARICOM) 
Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CAEMC) 
Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE) Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) 
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)  
Commonwealth Secretariat Conference of Ministers of Agriculture of West and Central Africa (CMA/WCA) 
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) 
Cooperation Council for the Arab  States of the Gulf (GCC) 
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) 
Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) 
Energy Charter Conference European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) 
European Free Trade Association (EFTA) 
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Gulf Organization for Industrial Consulting (GOIC) 
Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) 
Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Co-operation (IOR-ARC) Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) 
Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) 
Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) 
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) 
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) International Grains Council (IGC) 
International Labour Organization (ILO) 
International Monetary Fund (IMF) International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 
International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) 
International Telecommunications Union (ITU) International Textiles and Clothing Bureau (ITCB) 
International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO (ITC) 
International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV)  WT/MIN(05)/INF/7 
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 Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) 
Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 
Latin American Economic System (SELA) 
Latin American Integration Association (ALADI) Latin American Organization for Fisheries Development (OLDEPESCA) 
Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) 
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) 
Organization of Amer ican States (OAS) 
Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) 
Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) 
Permanent Secretariat of the General Treaty on Central American Econom ic Integration (SIECA) 
South Centre 
Southern African Development Community (SADC) 
Union du Maghreb Arabe (UMA) United Nations (UN) 
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) 
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) United Nations Economic and Social Commissi on for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) 
United Nations Economic and Social Co mmission for Western Asia (ESCWA) 
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) 
United Nations Economic Commission for La tin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) 
United Nations Environment Programme  (UNEP) United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) 
United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) 
United Nations University (UNU) 
West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) 
World Bank World Customs Organization (WCO) 
World Food Programme (WFP) 
World Health Organization (WHO) World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) 
World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) 
World Tourism Organization  
 
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