Committee on Trade and Development - Twenty-Eight Special Session - Note on the Meeting of 26 April 2007

World Trade Organization RESTRICTED TN/CTD/M/28 1 June 2007 (07-2263) Committee on Trade and Development Twenty-Eight Special Session note on the meeting of 26 april 2007 Chairman: Ambassador Burhan Gafoor (Singapore) A. Adoption of the Agenda 1 B. Agreement-specific Proposals 1 C. Other Outstanding Issues: Monitoring Mechanism 8 D. Other Business 8 Adoption of the Agenda The draft agenda for the meeting as contained in airgram WTO/AIR/2994 of 10 April 2007 was adopted. Agreement-specific Proposals The Chairman began by making some general comments on the work of the Special Session of the Committee on Trade and Development (Special Session) and the larger process in Geneva. He said that at the informal TNC meeting held the previous week, there had been a clear understanding that the Geneva process would be intensified and proceed in parallel with other processes outside Geneva. There had also been an understanding that the Chairpers