Commerce and trade ministers from the LDCs will join the two-day meet in Senegal beginning tomorrow. European Union Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy and WTO Director General Supachai Panitchpakdi will attend the conference.

Commerce Minister Altaf Hossain Choudhury, Commerce Secretary Suhel Ahmed and Bangladesh representative to WTO in Geneva will represent Bangladesh.

At a press briefing in Dhaka yesterday, ActionAid termed the Senegal meet 'very important' for the LDCs as it will be the largest gathering of the LDCs after the collapse of WTO ministerial held in Cancun last September.

The issues to be discussed in the meeting include agriculture, non-agricultural market access, cotton and Singapore issue.

But problems in the implementation of any treaty, special and differential treatment, movement of natural persons should also be discussed, said Ziaul Hoque Mukta, associate co-ordinator of the policy support unit of ActionAid.