The post-Cancun advisory committee in its second meeting yesterday decided that the viewpoints Bangladesh demonstrated as coordinator of the LDCs in the last WTO ministerial would not change.

"We won't deviate...We'll start right from where we stopped," Commerce Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury told journalists after the meeting at the Ministry.

Duty-free market access for non-farm products to developed markets, temporary movement of natural persons from least developed countries (LDCs) and better market share for LDCs were among the major stances LDCs pressed in the Cancun meeting that collapsed in a fiasco.

After the collapse of Cancun, it was decided that member countries would negotiate further at senior official levels to minimise the gaps by December to create a favourable ground for the next ministerial scheduled in Hong Kong sometime next year.

With this end in view, WTO general council will meet in Geneva on December 15-16 bringing together trade negotiators from the member countries to come up with a draft agenda for the next ministerial.