The Sixth Ministerial Meeting, in Hong Kong in December 2005, was therefore a crucial date in the Round’s calendar. Opinions on what Hong Kong achieved and did not achieve vary. Those of Pascal Lamy, the WTO’s Director General, and those of Peter Mandelson, the European Union’s Commissioner for Trade, were given in two separate addresses to audiences at SAIIA in February 2006.
Below are links to Pascal Lamy and Peter Mandelson’s speeches in full text, as well an assessment of the Hong Kong Ministerial by Faizel Ismail, South Africa’s Head of Delegation.
