MINISTERIAL DECLARATION The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Group of 77 and China met in New York, at the United

The Ministers expressed their serious concern over the failure in July of the talks of the WTO Doha Round that may preclude finishing negotiations this year and considered it a serious setback for the Doha Round and called upon the developed countries to demonstrate the flexibility and the political will necessary for breaking the current impasse in the negotiations, and they reaffirmed the need t. [...] The Ministers urged the Review Conference to follow-up the implementation of the outcome of the first International Conference on Financing for Development held in Monterrey and to adopt necessary measures to strengthen the review and follow-up mechanisms for the realization of the commitments made. [...] The Ministers called on the international community and the United Nations system to fully support Caribbean States in their efforts to gain international recognition of the Caribbean Sea as a special area in the context sustainable development, recognizing the importance of the Caribbean Sea to present and future generations and to the heritage and the continuing economic well-being and sustenanc. [...] In this regard, the Ministers urged the international community and the UN system to address those needs and vulnerabilities and take urgent and concrete action to fulfill their commitments, through the full and effective implementation of the Brussels Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001-2010, the Almaty Programme of Action, the Barbados Programme of Action an. [...] The Ministers reaffirmed the principle of "capacity to pay" as the fundamental criterion in the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations and thus rejected the establishment of artificial ceilings during the elaboration of the scale of assessments.