WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/GEN/190
3 July 2000
(00-2726)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROVISIONS FOR SPECIAL
AND DIFFERENTIAL TREATMENT
Statement by Thailand at the Meeting of 21-22 June 2000
First of all, I would like to express my delegation's appreciation to the WTO Secretariat for its
excellent paper, G/SPS/W/105, submitted for our consideration.
My concern is on language translation.  I would like to recall the recommendations of the
Committee on SPS during 10-11 March 1999, as appears in document G/SPS/7/Rev.1.  According to
the recommendations, Members were advised and  quote "when documents are not available in a
WTO working language, developed country Members shall, upon request, supply a translation of the
document, in a WTO working language".
In this regard, my delegation would like to urge Members, especially developed countries, to
follow these recommendations accordingly.
Finally, Thailand fully joins with my developing country colleagues in supporting
Articles 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4 as indicated in the document.
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