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 | | Sergio Marchi of Canada, is to hold consultations on the proposals before the Council to set up some basic principles and guidelines to govern the preparatory processes at Geneva for the Ministerial Conferences of the WTO, and at the Conferences themselves. |
 | | Marchi is also to hold further consultations on the processes and procedures for the election of a Director-General, where there are differences on questions about decision-making in the selection process if the preferred consensus decision-making reaches a deadlock. |
 | | Marchi had held informal consultations in June on this subject (in the WTO diplomatese, various ideas in this matter are called 'circuit breakers'), where members showed extreme reluctance to have recourse to voting in the WTO, but were willing to have recourse to it as a last resort, as provided in IX:1. |
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