The topmost decision making organ within the WTO is the ministerial conference. Members of the WTO, through their ministers, meet every two years to discuss the progress made in the negotiations towards removal of impediments to trade and make decisions on all matters affecting the multilateral trading system of its members.  The 10th WTO Ministerial Conference was the first to be held in Africa, in Kenya. After Bali and follow up meetings in Geneva at the WTO special sessions. Several issues were to be addressed in Nairobi, these included: the elimination of agricultural export subsidies, how to handle public stockholding programmes under the domestic support, the application of special safeguard mechanisms (SSM) and removal of cotton subsidies.