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ORGANIZATIONG/AG/NG/6
27 March 2001
(01-1535)
Committee on Agriculture
Special Session
SIXTH SPECIAL SESSION OF THE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE
Report by the Chairman, Ambassador Jorge Voto-Bernales, to the General Council
1. The Special Session of the Committee on Agriculture, which was established by the General
Council to conduct the negotiations for continuing the reform process under Article 20 of the
Agreement on Agriculture (WT/GC/M/53, paragraph 39 refers), held its sixth meeting on
22-23 March 2001.
2. The agenda as set out in WTO/AIR/1502 was adopted.
3. The following new or additional proposals for continuing the reform process were presented
and/or examined at the meeting:  (i) a proposal by India on "Negotiations on WTO Agreement on
Agriculture" (NG/W/102);  (i i) a proposal by Norway on "WTO Agriculture Negotiations"
(NG/W/101);  (iii) a proposal by Poland on "WTO Negotiations for Continuation of the ReformProcess in the Agricultural Sector" (NG/W/103);  (iv) a proposal by MERCOSUR, Chile, Colombia
and Bolivia on "State Trading Enterprises" (NG/W/104 and Corr.1);  (v) "Proposal by Morocco"
(NG/W/105);  (vi) a pr oposal by Turkey on "WTO Agriculture Negotiations" (NG/W/106 and
Corr.1);  (vii) "Comprehensive Proposal by the Arab Republic of Egypt to the WTO Negotiations on
Agriculture" (NG/W/107/Rev.1);  (viii) "Malian Proposals for the Future Negotiations on
Agriculture" (NG/W/99);  (ix) "WTO Negoti ations on Agriculture - Proposal by Nigeria"
(NG/W/130);  (x) "Negotiating Proposals by the Democratic Republic of the Congo" (NG/W/135);
(xi) a proposal by Kenya on "WTO Negotiations on Agriculture" (NG/W/136);  (xii) "Agricultural
Trade Negotiations in the WTO –  Preliminary Positions of Senegal" (NG/W/137);  (xiii) "Proposal
by Mexico for the Negotiations on Agriculture in the World Trade Organization (WTO)"
(NG/W/138);  (xiv) a proposal by MERCOSUR, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, India and
Malaysia on "Export Credits for Agricultural Products" (NG/W/139);  (xv) a proposal by Jordan on"WTO Agriculture Negotiations" (NG/W/140);  (xvi ) "WTO African Group:  Joint Proposal on the
Negotiations on Agriculture" (NG/W/142), and (xv ii) a proposal by  Namibia on "WTO Negotiations
on Agriculture" (NG/W/143).  In addition, a tech nical submission by Argentina on "Legitimate Non-
Trade Concerns" (NG/W/88) was considered and a submission on "WTO Negotiations on
Agriculture" (NG/W/141) was made available by Croatia.
4. It was noted that the Special Session had completed its consideration of all the proposals and
technical submissions that had been tabled in the course of the first  phase of the negotiations.
5. A number of the statements made at this meeting are to be circulated in the series
G/AG/NG/W/- at the request of the delegations concerned.  These statements will be listed in an
addendum to this report in due course.  Statements made at the previous (fifth) Special Session butcirculated after the appearance of the Chairman's report on that meeting (G/AG/NG/5) are:  Lithuania
(NG/W/127);  Poland (NG/W/128);  Dominican Republic, Honduras, Cuba and El SalvadorG/AG/NG/6
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(NG/W/129);  Hungary on behalf  of Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia,
Georgia, Hungary, the Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, the Slovak Republic and
Slovenia (NG/W/131);  Hungar y (NG/W/132);  Venezuela (NG/W/133);  and the Czech Republic
(NG/W/134).
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