RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/C/M/45/Corr.11
19 December 2000
(00-5547)
Council for Trade in Goods
16 October 2000
MINUTES OF THE MEETING
Held in the Centre William Rappard on 16 October 2000
Corrigendum
1. Please note that under Section V "Request for a WTO waiver , New ACP-EC Partnership
Agreement" , the intervention by the representative of Jamaica on page 7 has been quoted as "he" in
lines 4 and 9.  This should read "she".
2. Under the same agenda item the statement by the representative of Mauritius on page 8
should read as follows:
"The representative of Mauritius said that as the delegate from the European Communities
had emphasized, the ACP countries as an aggregate did not exceed one per cent of international trade,
a fact which had serious implications for the trading system.  Furthermore, the representative of
Senegal had referred to the longstanding mechanism for taking Lomé-related waivers into account and
it was clear that the current waiver request before the Council was not new in that historical context.
When the Lomé waiver was first approved in the 1970's, it was to facilitate the integration of the ACP
countries into the trading system.  From the 1970's to today, there had not been such integration, or ifthere had been, only to a very minor effect.  In this light it was necessary to show flexibility on all
sides in order to be able to successfully complete the task of integration.  He concluded by endorsing
the approach taken by the Chairman of the Council for Trade in Goods and signalled his delegation's
willingness to participate in any further consultations that might be necessary."
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