176. The representative of Australia said that there had been many productive exchanges during the workshop on the previous day and many comments and suggestions made, particularly by Lesotho, Bangladesh and Uganda, addressing the case for transparency and contact points and that reports should focus on LDCs and confusion avoided by providing information that might overlap with technical capacity-building activities. These had been useful insights that developed country Members could take on board.
177. She said that her delegation looked forward to utilizing these suggestions in its report next year and would also be pleased to participate in future workshops as it saw the value of maintaining a productive dialogue. She agreed with Switzerland that Article 66.2 itself was a necessary but not sufficient condition to facilitate technology transfer and that there were other issues which needed to be addressed in the domestic framework of LDCs in order to improve absorptive capacity.
