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WTO NEWS: 2000 PRESS RELEASES

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8 February 2000
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WTO Chairpersons for 2000

The WTO General Council today (8 February) noted the consensus on the following slate of names of chairpersons for WTO bodies:

General Council	Amb. Kåre Bryn (Norway)
Dispute Settlement Body	Mr. Stuart Harbinson (Hong Kong, China)
Trade Policy Review Body	Amb. Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury (Bangladesh)
Council for Trade in Goods	Amb. Carlos Pérez del Castillo (Uruguay)
Council for Trade in Services	Amb. Sergio Marchi (Canada)
Committee on Trade and Environment	Amb. Yolande Biké (Gabon)
Committee on Trade and Development	Amb. Ransford Smith (Jamaica)
Committee on Balance-of-Payments Restrictions	Amb. Milan Hovorka (Czech Republic)
Committee on Regional Trading Agreements	Amb. Edsel T. Custodio (Philippines)
Committee on Budget, Finance and Admin.	Mr. Hakki Akil (Turkey)
Working Group on the Relationship between Trade and Investment	Amb. Man Soon Chang (Korea)
Working Group on the Interaction between Trade and Competition Policy	Prof. Frederic Jenny (France)
Working Group on Transparency in Government Procurement	Amb. Ronald Saborío Soto (Costa Rica)

The General Council also noted that the Chairmanship for the Council on TRIPS will be appointed pending further consultations and taking into account the overall balance of the remaining Chairmanships to be appointed by the Council for Trade in Goods for its Subsidiary Bodies.

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