The decision to submit the paper by Dhaka as the leader of the LDCs was taken in the mini ministerial meeting held in Livingstone, Zambia in June 2005, commerce ministry sources said, adding that the ministry has requested the Bangladesh mission in Geneva to submit it to the WTO.

Keeping in view the 6th WTO ministerial meeting to be held between December 13 and 18 in Hong Kong, the government will fight to gain binding commitment of duty and quota free market access as well as a compensation mechanism for future erosion of preference from developed countries.

Working together with other LDCs in attaining issues of common interests, Bangladesh will also bargain for free movement of human resources, exclusion of LDCs from all reduction commitments, assistance for fulfilling millennium development goals, commitment on assistance to implement sanitary and phytosanitary measurers and fulfil standard requirements.

To finalise government's position in the upcoming WTO ministerial meeting, the commerce ministry held a series of meetings with all stakeholders and took opinion of different ministries.

The ministry also sought opinion from the parliamentary standing committee in this regard.

The government puts the highest priority on the issue and wants to ensure ultimate accountability in taking national position on the negotiation, a high official of the ministry said.