BACKGROUND AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
On 14 July 2003, we published our report on "Trade
and development at the WTO: Issues for Cancún". The
WTO's 5th Ministerial meeting took place in Cancún,
Mexico, from 10-14 September, closing with little agreement reached.
This report seeks to extract whatever lessons can be learned from
Cancún, and to apply such lessons to the pressing task
of reviving a genuine development round.
We announced an inquiry into "Trade and development
at the WTO: After Cancún" on 9 September, and subsequently
received memoranda from a range of civil society organisations.
We held two evidence sessions at Westminster.
We are grateful to all those who gave evidence to
the inquiry, and to those who assisted us in other ways, particularly
during the extremely busy post-Cancún period. We would
like to thank especially: the Rt Hon Hilary Benn, Secretary of
State for International Development and his DFID officials; the
Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
and her DTI officials; Commissioner Pascal Lamy of the European
Commission; Dr Matthew Lockwood, Head of UK Advocacy, ActionAid;
Mr Duncan Green, Policy Analyst, CAFOD; Ms Claire Melamed, Trade
Policy Manager, Christian Aid; and Mr John Hilary, who was Trade
Policy Analyst at ActionAid at the time of the Cancún Ministerial
meeting.
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