WTO General Council agrees to put services text in square brackets

5 December, 2005

The WTO's General Council agreed to show that there is no agreement on the controversial Annex on services in the draft Ministerial text to be sent to the WTO's Hong Kong Ministerial conference to be held on 13-18 December.

The significance of this is that the Hong Kong Ministerial will have to negotiate how to treat the entire Annex C on services.