WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONWT/MIN(03)/INF/12
26 August 2003
(03-4441)
MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE
Fifth Session
Cancún, 10 - 14 September 2003
NOTIFICATION OF CREDENTIALS OF REPRESENTATIVES
Members are reminded that Rule 9 of the Rules of Procedure for Sessions of the Ministerial
Conference and Meetings of the General Council provides, inter alia , that:
"The credentials of representatives shall be submitted to the Secretariat at least one week before
the opening of the session.  They shall take th e form of a communication from or on behalf of
the Minister for Foreign Affairs or the compet ent authority of the Member authorizing the
representative to perform on behalf of the Member the functions indicated in the WTO
Agreement.1
1It is understood that in the case of a separa te customs territory Member the credentials
of its representatives shall have no implication as to sovereignty."
Accordingly, Members who have not already done so are requested to submit the credentials of
their representatives participating in the Fifth Sessi on of the Ministerial Conference at Cancún to the
WTO Secretariat (Ms. T. Bridgman, Legal Affairs Division (Fax: 739 5788;  Tel: 739 5348)) as soon as
possible.
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