Jefatura de Gabinete de Ministros 1 - Informe Uruguay

movement of natural persons. UNCTAD should examine all issues related to
liberalization of trade in services, including Mode 4, and apply the insights gained
through its analytical work to help strengthen the domestic services capacity of
developing countries. UNCTAD should continue its analytical work on GATS rules
and domestic regulation. It should further assess modal linkages in services supply
and in particular linkages with Mode 1.
100. UNCTAD should continue to monitor developments in commodity markets and
assist developing countries, in particular those most dependent on commodities, in
formulating strategies and policies to respond to the challenges of commodity
markets, including over-supply, and addressing links between international
commodity trade and national development, particularly poverty reduction. It should
analyse and promote exchange of information on commodity markets and
experiences with factors, policy issues and responses influencing the
competitiveness of the commodity sector so as to contribute to diversification, adding
value, and more effective participation in the supply chain, including through
assistance for institution building; analyse and support the development of
appropriate and effective mechanisms and capacity to respond to commodity price
fluctuations and to mitigate earnings shortfalls, in particular by improving the capacity
to apply modern commodity price risk management and financial instruments; and
follow up, as appropriate, on the recommendations addressed to UNCTAD in the
report of the Meeting of Eminent Persons on Commodity Issues. UNCTAD should
also continue work on agricultural, forestry and fishery products, metals and
minerals, and oil and oil products. It should further help to build effective partnerships
among relevant stakeholders aiming at viable solutions and sustainable approaches
to commodity problems, including by fostering public-private cooperation in
commodity chains with a view to ensuring, inter alia through market-based principles,
a more equitable distribution of revenues and benefits along the supply chain and
supporting diversification. It should include a regional perspective in its work.
UNCTAD and the Common Fund for Commodities should strengthen their
cooperation.
UNCTAD should undertake analysis, including at the regional level, of the
development
dimension of intellectual property and trade-related aspects of intellectual property
rights (TRIPS), including improvements in the transfer of technology to developing
countries, the development dimensions and implications of the establishment and
enforcement of intellectual property rights, as well as protection of traditional
knowledge, genetic resources, and folklore and fair and equitable sharing, without
prejudice to the work undertaken in other fora.
UNCTAD should also undertake analysis on trade and development aspects of open
and collaborative projects, including open source software, focusing on the
development dimension. Such work should pay particular attention to ICT sectors.
UNCTAD should continue to provide support to developing countries on issues at the
interface between trade and environment, such as market access, agriculture,
traditional knowledge, transfer of environmentally sound technology, environmental
goods and services, environmentally preferable products, and issues concerning
eco-labelling and certification costs, and follow up on trade-related issues contained
in the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation. It should strengthen work on the
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