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Doha Development Agenda: Negotiations, implementation and development The November 2001 declaration of the Fourth Ministerial Conference in Doha, Qatar, provides the mandate for negotiations on a range of subjects and other work. The negotiations include those on agriculture and services, which began in early 2000. In Doha, Ministers also approved a linked decision on implementation — problems developing countries face in implementing the current WTO agreements. The original mandate has now been refined by work at Cancún in 2003, Geneva in 2004, and Hong Kong in 2005. See a brief summary of these negotiations. See also: > July 2008 package
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The main Doha Declaration back to top Most of the subjects treated involve negotiations; other work includes actions under “implementation”, analysis and monitoring.
The implementation decision back to top Around 100 implementation issues were raised in the lead-up to the Doha Ministerial Conference. The implementation decision, combined with paragraph 12 of the main Doha Declaration, provides a two-track solution. More than 40 items under 12 headings were settled at or before the Doha conference, for immediate delivery; and the vast majority of the remaining items are immediately the subject of negotiations:
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