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WORLD TRADE WT/COMTD/W/8
23June1995
ORGANIZATION(95-1717)
Committee onTrade andDevelopment
Second Session
5July1995
DRAFT DECISION FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OFA
WTO SUB-COMMITTEE ONLEAST-DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
"Inthelightofparagraph 7ofArticle IVoftheAgreement Establishing theWorld Trade
Organization, paragraph 5oftheMarrakesh Declaration, theDeclaration ontheContribution ofthe
World Trade Organization toAchieving Greater Coherence inGlobal Economic Policymaking and
theDecision onMeasures inFavour ofLeast-Developed Countries, theCommittee onTrade and
Development agrees toestablish aSub-Committee onLeast-Developed Countries withthefollowing
terms ofreference:
(a) togiveparticular attention tothespecial andspecific problems ofleast-developed
countries;
(b) toreview periodically theoperation ofthespecial provisions intheMultilateral Trade
Agreements andrelated Ministerial Decisions infavour oftheleast-developed country
Members;
(c) toconsider specific measures toassist andfacilitate theexpansion oftheleast-developed
countries 'tradeandinvestment opportunities, withaviewtoenabling themtoachieve
theirdevelopment objectives;1and,
(d) toreport totheCommittee onTrade andDevelopment forconsideration andappropriate
action."
1TheSub-Committee would giveconsideration, interalia,toanyreport thattheCommittee on
Agriculture maydecide torefertoitfollowing paragraph 6ofthe"Decision onMeasures Concerning
thePossible Negative Effects oftheReform Programme onLeast-Developed andNetFood-Importing
Developing Countries" andArticle XVIoftheAgreement onAgriculture.