Thank you very much. And ultimately, at the final hour, in fact the final minutes, we stepped back from the brink on E-Commerce. With much effort from the DG and our hosts and others. And by extending that moratorium, we ensured that this organisation did not lose its credibility on digital trade with global business. Thank you. But we also have to pick ourselves up, as you set out at the beginning. We have to move ahead, build on what we did achieve, and what we came so close to achieving. Free and open trade is worth fighting for. Multilateralism is worth fighting for. This organisation is worth fighting for. And this delegation will be fighting for it. I’ve described – back to London – MC13 as a game of two halves, to capture a footballing metaphor. And it started, I think, on a real high. A fantastic weekend, full of real energy. We welcomed Timor Leste and Comoros to this organisation. We finalised Investment Facilitation for Development agreement – 126 Members of this organisation, 90 of them developing countries. We secured the entry-into-force of the Services Domestic Regulation – the first time a joint initiative has been implemented at this organisation. And we secured, as so many others have said this morning, a bigger and better development package than many of us could have hoped. Some people say that it is a thankless task but I think this morning shows he has thanks from all over the organisation, so I hope that gives him the strength and vitality and confidence to continue that vital role. Because this is a vital issue for this organisation. Thank you very much Chair. Chair, I would like to really welcome the work on CTD, and in particular, the work of this Chair. We welcome the Ministerial Declaration that we made in Abu Dhabi reaffirming the WTO’s work programme on small economies and we are absolutely 101% behind those efforts. We look forward to working with the CTD Dedicated sessions on small economies under the new leadership. Thank you. Thank you very much. So there’s a lot of talk in this organisation about building consensus. But I have to say that MC13 often felt like an exercise in blocking consensus, not building it. What we need more of in this organisation is responsible consensus. It is déjà vu all over again, to coin a phrase. So here we have a delegation that tried to bring forward this proposal at MC13 that achieved absolutely no convergence on this issue. And now, they are trying to bring it forward at the General Council. We have a discussion already scheduled in the coming days in the relevant service bodies of this organisation. For the record, we think this is an issue of public health, not trade policy, and we think it has no place here in this General Council. I find this process that we are going through on this issue, as on the last one, to say the least, bizarre. [Reintervention:] [Reintervention:] [Reintervention:] Thank you very much. Let me start as others have done by thanking you, the DG, the Chairs and, of course, our Emirati hosts for their very efficient and indeed, often lavish hospitality, falcons and all. Agenda item 4 – Ministerial Instruction in Paragraph 3 of the Ministerial Decision on WTO Smooth Transition Support Measures in Favour of Countries Graduated from the LDC Category Agenda item 3 – Work Programme on small economies. Report by the Chairperson on the dedicated session of the Committee on Trade and Development (CTD) But like others here, I have to say and be honest, beyond that, we were disappointed – we remain disappointed – with the overall outcome. Despite an enormous amount of work by so many people in this organisation, we did not manage, once again, to set ourselves on a path to agriculture reform. We could have agreed a landmark agreement that would have helped us address the alarming decline in fish stocks which are so vital to some of the world’s most vulnerable communities as so many others have said here today. Remittances is clearly a big issue globally, and, as the United States has just said, it is an issue treated by other international organisations as well and it is an issue on which we really benefit from the voices from those private sector companies that are involved in this business. We look forward, as I’m sure is an integral part of the Indian proposal, to an interactive dialogue with those private sector organisations.
