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13 June 2022  
(22-4582) Page: 1/2 
Ministerial Conference  
Twelfth Session  
Geneva, 12 -15 June 202 2 Original: English  
 
 
G-33 MINISTERIAL STATEMENT ON WTO AGRICULTURE NEGOTIATIONS  
AT 12TH MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE  
G-33 MINISTERIAL MEETING, GENEVA, 12 JUNE 2022  
The following communication, dated 12 June 2022, is being circulated at the request of the  
delegation of Indonesia on behalf of the  G33. 
 
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1.  We, Ministers and Representatives of the G -33 Members, met on 12 June 2022, in Geneva to 
exchange views on the state of play of the WTO agriculture negotiations, and to deliberate the 
Group' s priorities on the outcome and the way forward.  
2.  We are deeply concerned on the lack of progress in the negotiations. We call on all WTO Members 
to engage constructively to achieve meaningful outcomes at the MC12.  
3.  We note with concern the consequences of  current global challenges, including the COVID -19 
pandemic, conflicts, and climate -related disasters, particularly on food security and livelihoods in 
developing countries, including NFIDCs, SVEs and LDCs. We call for Members to address the pending 
issues  of importance to the G -33.  
4.  We reaffirm the urgency and importance of maintaining an open and predictable agricultural 
trade to ensure the continued flow of food, and agricultural products, as well as inputs critical for 
food and agricultural production a nd supply chains. We also underline the importance of enhancing 
production and maintaining food price stability with least distorting global markets.  
5.  We reaffirm our commitment in moving forward the agriculture negotiations based on the 
pragmatic options o n all mandated issues, particularly the expeditious resolution of a permanent 
solution on Public Stockholding for Food Security Purposes (PSH), as one of critical policy tools, and 
the Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM), as an important instrument that woul d buffer developing 
countries against sudden price declines or against major import surges.  
6.  We call for all Members to honor past Ministerial commitments and work together for its 
implementations to lay a good foundation for future Ministerial decisions. The G33 will continue to 
work with all other WTO Members on the elements contained in the proposals submitted by some 
G33 Members and others , to reach mutually acceptable outcomes on agriculture at the MC12.  
7.  Further, G -33 co-sponsoring Members underscore t he importance of the Joint Proposal 
WT/MIN(22)/W/4 on a permanent solution on PSH with the African Group, and the African, 
Caribbean, and Pacific Group , as a basis to achieve outcomes on PSH at the MC12.  
8.  We recognize that it is the collective responsibility of all WTO Members to address the challenges 
facing the multilateral trading system. Hence, all future work programmes must satisfactorily 
address the development needs of developing countries, includin g NFIDCs, SVEs and LDCs with 
Special and Differential Treatment as an integral part of multilateral trade negotiations.  WT/MIN(22)/13  
 
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  9.  We emphasize that a universal, rules -based, open, non -discriminatory, equitable, and 
WTO-centered multilateral trading system is vital for global agricultural trade and will continue to 
promote it.  
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