213 Doha WTO Ministerial Declaration Sample Clauses

213 Doha WTO Ministerial Declaration. WT Doc WT/MIN/1/DEC/1 (20 November 2001) (adopted on 14 November 2001). The Doha Declaration highlights the importance of the ‘SDT’,214 ‘technical cooperation’,215 ‘capacity building’216 and the important relationship with trade and ‘cross-border investment’, and has largely ignored FDI as an important topic.217 Despite the development focused provisions in the Doha Declaration, the WTO failed to achieve an investment agreement for sustainable economic development, mainly because developed countries were unable to consider the concerns of developing countries on development and sovereignty.218 The Doha negotiations have continued to drag on, remaining contentious throughout.219 The ongoing lack of progress in Doha may jeopardise the WTO’s future.220 In any event, one thing remains clear: substantive reforms with regard to the definition of LICs, agriculture, SDT, GSP, inclusion of FDI and introduction of a CIIA into the WTO will all be required if the WTO is to maintain its organisational legitimacy into the future.221