Archive - Sep 22, 2006

We, the Ministers of the Cairns Group, met in Cairns, Australia from 20-22 September, on the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of our Group, to review the current impasse in the Doha negotiations and to discuss how we can contribute to their successful resumption.

The debate about the WTO's Aid for Trade negotiations is critical because it firmly places questions about aid-how much, to whom, and for what purpose-within the context of the WTO.