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Introduction

Trade, foreign, finance and agriculture Ministers from more than 120 World Trade Organization Member governments and from those in the process of acceding to the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø×ÊÁÏ participated in a Ministerial Conference in Singapore from 9 to 13 December 1996. The Conference was the first since the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø×ÊÁÏ entered into force on 1 January 1995. It included plenary meetings and various multilateral, plurilateral and bilateral business sessions. These examined issues related to the work of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø×ÊÁÏ's first two years of activity and the implementation of the Uruguay Round Agreements. The Singaporean Government was the official host of the Ministerial.

 

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Ministerial declarations 

• Ministerial declaration
• Ministerial declaration on trade in information technology products (download in PDF format, 15 pages, 92KB)

 

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Statements 

• Address by Director-General, Renato Ruggiero
• Statements delivered during the Conference

 

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Background material 

• 8 December — Briefs prepared for the Media
• Official Documentation for the Conference

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Other documents 

More Ministerial documents are available in the . See instructions on right on how to search and download these documents.

• WT/MIN(96)/ Ministerial Conference Singapore
• WT/MIN(96)/DEC/ Ministerial Conference Singapore — Declaration
• WT/MIN(96)/DEC/W/ Ministerial Conference Singapore — Declaration — Working documents
• WT/MIN(96)/INF/ Ministerial Conference Singapore
• WT/MIN(96)/SR/ Ministerial Conference Singapore — Summary Records
• WT/MIN(96)/ST/ Ministerial Conference Singapore — Statements
• WT/MIN(96)/W/ Ministerial Conference Singapore — Working documents