144. The Chairperson said that the discussion had been rich and substantive and thanked all the delegations for their cooperation. With regard to the factual compilation of points to be made by the Secretariat according to each category of points and issues identified in his informal note of June 2002 (JOB(02)/49) and to interventions and communications made so far, he said that it should be made available by the end of October 2002. He hoped it would help in having a more focused and efficient discussion at the November meeting as the Special Session was getting to the next stage of its negotiations. As already suggested in June, at the November meeting, a further discussion of the issues taken up at the June and September meetings as well as a detailed examination of the proposals could be envisaged. In this perspective, he encouraged delegations to come forward with new or revised proposals; such proposals should contain as much "treaty language" as possible. Regarding the final negotiating phase he had described at the March meeting, he recalled that, usually, it took place on the basis of a text, treated by the various parties as a common basis for negotiations. In other words, a single document containing common language on the various areas where there was essential commonality of positions and identified options, for example, through square brackets or alternatives in regard to areas where significant differences remained. Originally, he was hoping that such a single text could be prepared by a group of delegations. If this were not the case, he, in his capacity as Chairperson, would have to produce such a paper. He recalled that he had to work with the target date of the Cancún Ministerial Conference in September 2003. He thought that such a paper might be necessary in early 2003. He called upon delegations to work together towards commonality on as many issues as possible.
