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PRESS/268
15 January 2002
(02-0204)
MOORE PRAISES ADVISORS, SAYS EFFORTS WILL LEAD TO NEW IDEAS
The following statement was given by Director-General Mike Moore after a two-day meeting
with his group of external advisors. The advisors me t with the Director-General and his staff to co-
ordinate efforts for a summer publication aimed at addressing some of the key issues and problems
affecting the World Trade Organization.
"I'd like to start by thanking all members of  the Group for having participated in these
discussions.  We are fortunate to have as members of this group, some of the world's most
authoritative and distinguished experts on the global trading system and the WTO. These are creative
and learned people who we have asked to look beyond the immediate horizon and consider how we
might shape this organization and the system it oversees in the years ahead.
"Our objective is a publication to come out this summer which will offer collective and
individual ideas on how we should move forwar d on the questions of substance and governance,
taking into account the external political factors which will shape our organization in the future.
"The Doha Conference was a great success and it has led to an impressive agenda of work
and negotiations in the years to come.  We have the development agenda and we intend to carry out
the instructions of ministers. But success at Doha does not change the fact that many of the problems
which surfaced at Seattle remain and will recur throughout the negotiations.  Doha has not reduced inany way the need for serious thought to be given to the problems confronting the system, as well as to
the substantive issues in the Doha Agenda itself.  It merely gives us a more positive framework for
thinking.
"I do not pretend that in two days of discus sions we have found all of the answers. But we
have, I think, been debating the right questions. A WTO of 144 member governments is not the same
as a GATT of 23. We need to develop ideas on how this organization can improve its play, and
deliver more to its members both in terms of substance and in terms of process.
"The debate over the past couple of days has been, at times, intense and we have not all
agreed on all points.  But the differences of view have been healthy. Each of our experts comes from a
different background and sees the world from a different perspective. But each shares a commondesire: to see a vibrant and representative WTO serving all its member governments and their people
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"In the coming months, each member of this group will write a chapter to the publication and
I'm sure there will be further differences of opinion. The different perspectives and priorities will beevident in these chapters. But they will also work on a common view for the organization. Some of
the ideas that emerge will be provocative and perhaps even controversial. But addressing the issues
confronting this organization calls for fresh thinking and creative suggestions on how we can address
the problems we face.
"A healthy debate which examines these institutional issues needs to offer up a variety of
perspectives for consideration by our clients, the member governments. This is an inter-governmental
organization which makes decisions on the basis of consensus. We have not for a moment lost sight of
this point. But the assembled wisdom of this extraordinary group can bring to member governments
some ideas on how we can best address the problems  that confront us today and those which await us
tomorrow."
Mr. Moore's Advisors:
Professor Robert Baldwin,
Hilldale Professor of Economics, Emeritus,
University of Wisconsin
Professor Jagdish N. Bhagwati
University Professor, Columbia University, New
York
Special Adviser to the UN on Globalization
Dr. Peter Eigen
Chairman, Transparency International,
Berlin
Professor Victor Halberstadt
Professor of Public Economics,
Leiden University
Professor Koichi Hamada
Professor of Economics, Yale University
President, Economic and Social Research
Institute (Cabinet Office), Tokyo
Professor Patrick Messerlin
Professor, Institute of Political Studies,
ParisDr. Konrad Von Moltke
Senior Fellow, International Institute for
Sustainable Development, Winnipeg
Professor Manmohan Singh
Leader of the Opposition,
Formerly Finance Minister, and Governor of the
Reserve Bank of India
Dr. Sylvia Ostry
Distinguished Research Fellow,  Munk Centre for
International Studies, University of Toronto
Professor Ademola Oyejide
University of Ibadan
Senator LeRoy Trotman
Former President, International Confederation of
Free Trade Unions
General Secretary, Barbados Workers' Union
Dr. Ernesto Zedillo
Former President of Mexico
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