The Chairman recalled that Ministers had mandated the Council for Trade in Goods to review and, as appropriate, clarify and improve relevant aspects of Articles V, VIII and X of the GATT 1994 and identify the trade facilitation needs and priorities of Members, in particular of developing and least-developed ones. He further reminded delegations of Ministers' commitment to ensuring adequate technical assistance and support for capacity building in this area. He noted that, in the line with the work program on trade facilitation agreed by Members in the CTG meeting of 22 March 2002, the present meeting will have three core agenda items: (i) Article X of the GATT 1994; (ii) trade facilitation needs and priorities of Members, particularly of developing and least developed countries; and (iii) technical assistance and capacity building. He recalled that Members had agreed to have this session focus on GATT Article X, while at the same time allowing for delegations to also address questions related to Articles V and VIII. Therefore, any delegation wishing to speak on those Articles would have the opportunity to do so under agenda item 1 as well.