    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush (2005, Book II)]
    [November 14, 2005]
    [Page 1716]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Statement on the Doha Development Agenda
    November 14, 2005

        Prime Minister Blair has challenged World
    Trade Organization members to ensure that the Doha Development Agenda
    fulfills its market-opening potential that would help lift hundreds of
    millions of people out of poverty. I welcome and endorse his call for
    action to ensure a successful outcome to the Doha round.
        To achieve this ambitious agenda, all WTO members will have to do
    their part. To give impetus to Doha, I called for the reduction and then
    elimination of trade-distorting agricultural subsidies and tariffs. If
    the EU offers similar real cuts to agricultural subsidies and tariffs,
    others will also have to come forward with significant proposals to cut
    tariffs and reduce barriers on manufactured goods and services.
        The Doha Development Agenda is vital to promoting development.
    Through the pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals and the G-8
    agreement to cancel 100 percent of the debt of the world's most heavily
    indebted nations, we have made good progress on aid and debt relief.
    However, trade is the engine for a sustained expansion of prosperity
    around the world. Through a successful Doha round, we can realize that
    opportunity.