Desiring to promote the expansion and progressive liberalisation of world trade and to facilitate investment across international frontiers so as to increase the economic growth of all trading partners, particularly developing country Members, while ensuring free competition;

Fiscal adjustment in recent years was based on large and increasing primary surpluses while the interest burden declined progressively under the combined effect of lower interest rates and of the reduction in the government debt to GDP ratio.

Treatment with nucleoside analogues must be discontinued in the setting of symptomatic hyperlactataemia and metabolic/ lactic acidosis, progressive hepatomegaly, or rapidly elevating aminotransferase levels.

WISHING to establish a multilateral framework of principles and rules for trade in services with a view to the expansion of such trade under conditions of transparency and progressive liberalization and as a means of promoting the economic growth of all trading partners and the development of developing countries;