General Council - 30 November 2011 - Development assistance aspects of cotton - Fourth periodic report by the Director-General

World Trade Organization WT/GC/137 WT/CFMC/DG/4 WT/MIN(11)/4 28 November 2011 (11-6195) General Council 30 November 2011 DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE ASPECTS OF COTTON Fourth Periodic Report by the Director-General TABLE OF CONTENTS I. introduction by the director-general 1 II. development assistance: process, implementation and results 2 A. results 3 III. Conclusion 3 introduction by the director-general This is the Fourth Periodic Report by the Director-General to the Membership on cotton. The focus of this report is specifically on the Development Assistance Aspects of Cotton and on the WTO treatment of the Sectoral Initiative on Cotton more broadly. Since my Third Periodic Report in 2009, progress has been made. Four more Rounds of the Director-General's Consultative Framework Mechanism were held, bringing the total number of consultative rounds to date to 16, since 2004. The Evolvi