RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/AG/NG/S/22
23 January 2001
(01-0338)
Committee on Agriculture
Special Session
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS AND DECLARATIONS WHICH MEMBERS
CONSIDER RELEVANT TO THE NEGOTIATIONS ON AGRICULTURE
Note by the Secretariat
At the request of the third Special Session of the Committee on Agriculture held on
28-29 September 2000, the Secretariat was requested to prepare a factual paper listing international
agreements and declarations which Members consider relevant to the negotiations on agriculture(G/AG/NG/3, paragraph 7(b), refers).  In order to facilitate such a compilation, Members were invited
to identify the international agreements and declarat ions which they considered to be relevant in this
regard.  The information received to date is attached.G/AG/NG/S/22
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INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS AND DECLARATIONS
CONSIDERED RELEVANT BY:
A. AUSTRALIA :
1. APEC 2000 Trade Ministers Statements (Darwin)
2. APEC 2000 Economic Ministers Statements (Bandar Seri Begawan)3. APEC 2000 Leaders Statements4. CSD Decision 8/4 - Agriculture - July 20005. Food Aid Convention
6. FAO Council Decision
7. OECD Ministerial Declaration8. Meeting of the OECD Committee for Agriculture at Ministerial Level - 5-6 March 1998 –
Communique
9. Agriculture in a changing world: which policies for tomorrow?
10. OECD Council Meeting at Ministerial Level -26-27 Mary 1999 – Communique11. OECD Council Meeting at Ministerial Level - 27 June 2000 - Communique
B. M
AURITIUS :
1. 1996 FAO World Food Summit Rome Declaration on World Food Security and World Food
Summit Plan of Action
2. The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – 19963. Food Aid Convention
4. OECD Ministerial Communiqués
5. Twenty-Second Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Small Island
Developing States (SIDS)  – September 1999: Reports/Resolutions/Decisions
6. Convention on Biological Diversity
7. ACP-EU Partnership Agreement
8. Rio DeclarationG/AG/NG/S/22
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C. NORWAY :
1. Agenda 21 and the Rio Declaration, 1992
2. The Convention on Biological Diversity, 19923. The Convention on Climate Change, 19924. The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 19665. The World Food Summit  - Plan of Action, 19966. The Food Aid Convention, 1999.
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