GENEVA - The Doha Round of trade liberalization negotiations will be discussed when ministers meet later this year at the World Trade Organization, Chilean envoy Mario Matus said Friday.

"The review of WTO activities including the Doha program is one of the two points on the agenda of the regular ministerial meeting of our organization that will be held in Geneva between November 30 and December 2," said Matus, who is Chile's ambassador to the WTO.

The regular ministerial meeting of the WTO's 153-member states will also deal with the trade body's contributions to "the recovery of the (world economy), growth, and economic development."

However, Matus added that the meeting "will not take decisions" on the two issues.

"There will simply be a resume that should be adopted at the end of the two and a half days of discussions," he said.

"There will be reports linked to the themes such as cotton, small economies, violations of WTO rules, electronic commerce," said Matus.

WTO Director General Pascal Lamy had said on several occasions that the ministerial meeting would not be a negotiating session on the Doha Round.

The WTO is bound to call a full ministerial meeting at least every two years.

But this timetable has slipped given the tortuous progress of the Doha talks on extending free trade rules, which began in 2001 but which have been plagued by disagreements between developed and developing countries.

The last ministerial meeting involving the full membership of the WTO was held in Hong Kong in 2005 -- and failed to secure a breakthrough.

Since Hong Kong, only ministers from major trading nations or those representing groupings have gathered to advance the Doha Round, which began in the Qatari capital in 2001.