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Provisional Agenda  back to top

This Provisional Agenda refers to the Plenary Session of the Conference. In addition, there will be two Working Sessions as described by the Chairman of the General Council in his statements to the General Council at its meetings of 22 July and 20 October 2009. The Working Sessions will be aimed at providing an interactive forum for Ministers for discussion under two broad sub-themes: “Review of WTO activities, including the Doha Work Programme” for the first day; and “The WTO's contribution to recovery, growth and development” for the second day.

Format of the meeting  back to top

Mr Matus said that “the Conference would take place during a fixed three-day period. The Opening Ceremony would take place on the afternoon of the first day, with Plenary Sessions taking place over the following two days. A brief Closing Ceremony would then take place at the end of the third day.” He added that “the emphasis will be on transparency and open discussion rather than on small group processes and informal negotiating structures”.

> General Council decision adopted on 26 May 2009

Information for delegations  back to top

• 6 November 2009: Consolidated information note
• 29 October 2009: List of participations
• 23 October 2009: Documentation — a Greener Approach
• 21 October 2009: Communication from Pascal Lamy
• 25 September 2009: Participation of the LDC Officials
• 12 August 2009: Visas
• 29 July 2009: Hotel bookings
• 7 July 2009: General information

Official documents for the Geneva Ministerial  back to top
  

Search Documents Online These links open a new window: allow a moment for the results to appear. > help with downloading these documents Preparations Decision adopted by the General Council, 26 May 2009 Minutes of General Council meetings where the Geneva Ministerial Conference was discussed  > search Members' papers Dar Es Salaam Declaration Strengthening the WTO Communication from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Hong Kong China, European Communities, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico,Norway, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkey, United States and Uruguay India Uruguay You can perform more sophisticated searches from the Documents Online search facility (opens in new window) by defining multiple search criteria such as document code, full text search or document date.