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17 May 2024  
(24-3838) Page: 1/1 
General Council  
22-23 May 2024    
 
  
PROPOSED AGENDA  
1.1  For action/decision  
1. Committee on Budget, Finance and Administration – Report on Meeting of 25 March 2024 
(WT/BFA/219 ) 
1.2  For discussion  
2. Report by the Chairperson of the Trade Negotiations Committee and Report by 
the Director -General  
 
3. Follow -Up to Outcomes of Ministerial Conferences: MC13 (Abu Dhabi); MC12 ( Geneva, 
co-hosted by Kazakhstan ); MC11  (Buenos Aires ); MC10 ( Nairobi ) and MC9 ( Bali) – Statement by 
the Chairperson  
 
4. Work Programme on Small Economies – Report by the Chairperson of the Dedicated Session 
of the Committee on Trade and Development  
 
5. Moving Agriculture Negotiations Forward – Communication from Bra zil (WT/GC/W/931 ) 
 
6. Policy Space for Industrial Development – Advancing WTO Committee Work to Support 
Structural Transformation and Industrial Development in Developing Countries – Request  from the 
African Group  
 
7. Preserving the Current Practice of Consensus -Based Decision -Making in the WTO – 
Communication from the ACP Group ( WT/GC/W/932 ) 
 
8. Responsible Consensus – Communication from Costa Rica; The Gambia; Korea, Republic of; 
Norway; Peru; Singapore; Switzerland and the Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, 
Kinmen and Matsu (WT/GC/W/933 ) 
 
9. Reinvigo ration of the Work Programme on E -Commerce – Discussion in all mandated 
WTO bodies, including General Council Dedicated Sessions – Statement by India  
 
10. 30 Years of WTO: How Has Development Dimension Progressed? – A Way Forward – 
Communication from India ( WT/GC/W/934 ) 
 
11. Reflections on Approaches to Development Issues – Communication from China 
(WT/GC/W/935 ) 
 
12. Incorporation of the Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement into Annex 4 of the 
WTO Agreement – Communication from 124 Members Parties to the I FDA ( WT/GC/W/927 ) 
1.3  For information  
13. Dispute Settlement Reform – Report by the Facilitator  
 
14. Report of the Committee on Agriculture on the Food Security Work Programme pursuant to 
paragraph 8 of the MC12 Declaration on Food Insecurity ( G/AG/38 ) - Statement by the Chairperson 
of the Committee on Agriculture  
 
Other Business  
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