At the sixth Ministerial meeting, held in Buenos Aires in April 2001, a number of key decisions were made regarding the FTAA negotiations. Ministers received from the Negotiating Groups draft text of the FTAA Agreement, and, in an unprecedented move designed to increase the transparency of the process, agreed to make this text publicly available. The Technical Committee of Institutional Issues was created to consider the overall architecture of an FTAA Agreement (general and institutional matters). Ministers also highlighted the need to foster dialogue with civil society, and directed the Committee of Government Representatives on the Participation of Civil Society to forward to the Negotiating Groups the Civil Society submissions in response to the open invitation, which refer to their respective issue areas, and those related to the FTAA process in general. Ministers reiterated the importance of the provision of technical assistance to smaller economies in order to facilitate their participation in the FTAA