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Mr. Ravier
referred to the substantial effort made by WTO Members and donors to
allow the Secretariat to cope with the challenges in the area of
capacity building and technical cooperation, in particular after last
year's launch of the Doha Development Agenda. Against this background,
he underlined the substantial increase of training activities carried
out by the WTO Secretariat in general and the Training Institute in
particular. The Deputy Director-General nevertheless confirmed that
Residential Trade Policy Courses would remain the main benchmark for
the development of a diversified programme of training activities
which will also make use of modern technology to disseminate
information and increase the interactivity between trainers and
participants. Mr. Ravier stressed the importance of keeping alive the
network of contacts that participants were able to make during the
course.
On
behalf of the thirty participants to the course, Mr. Andrew Osborne
Satney, from Saint Lucia, thanked the WTO Secretariat and the WTO
Training Institute for hosting the course. He underlined the
importance of this type of capacity building event which permits to
understand from the inside how the WTO functions. He underscored Mr.
Ravier's appeal to maintain the contact with the WTO and conveyed the
appreciation of the participants to the WTO for having allowed them to
constitute solid bases for building a more active participation of
their countries in the work conducted under the auspices of the WTO,
and in particular in the negotiations leading to the next WTO
Ministerial Conference to be held in Mexico in 2003.
The
WTO Training Institute's mandate goes beyond organizing the
traditional three-month trade policy courses, which were instituted
already under the GATT, in 1955, and includes the development of
activities in the following areas: training for trainers, a
diversified range of short-term trade policy courses,
distance-learning services, as well as increased co-operation with
universities and other institutions of learning handling WTO and
trade-related issues.
The
list of participants of the 19th Trade Policy Course
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Belarus |
Mr.
Aleksandr KULINKOVICH, First Secretary, WTO Section, Department
of Tariff Regulation and WTO, Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Minsk. |
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Belize |
Miss
Carmen Melina SILVA, Foreign Service Officer, International
Trade Desk, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belmopan. |
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Bosnia
and Herzegovina |
Mr.
Emir DJIKIC, Senior Official, Sector for International Trade
Relations, Department for Multilateral Trade Relations, Ministry
of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations, Sarajevo. |
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Brunei
Darussalam |
Mrs.
Ainatol Zahayu MOHAMMAD, Project Officer, International
Relations and Trade Development Division, Ministry of Industry
and Primary Resources, Bandar Seri Begawan. |
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Bulgaria |
Mrs.
Rouslana Anguelova STOYANOVA, Head, WTO and other International
Economic Organizations Division, Multilateral Trade and Economic
Policy Directorate, Ministry of Economy, Sofia. |
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Cameroon |
Mrs.
Marie Madeleine Cocovi NGUIDJOI, Sub-Director of External Trade
Affairs, Department of Commercial Promotion and Services,
Ministry of Industrial and Commercial Development, Yaounde. |
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Eritrea |
Mr.
Berekhet-AB Habtemariam OGBAZGHI, Director, Foreign Trade
Division, Department of Trade, Ministry of Trade and Industry,
Asmara. |
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Gambia |
Mr.
Lamin JAMMEH, Trade Economist, Trade Division, Department of
State for Trade, Industry and Employment, Banjul. |
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Grenada |
Mr.
Junior Glenroy MAHON, Trade Officer/Economist, International
Trade Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International
Trade, St. George's. |
| Hong
Kong, China |
Mrs.
Kit Mui Patricia LUI, Principal Trade Officer, Multilateral
Division, Trade and Industry Department, Kowloon. |
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Indonesia |
Mr.
MBA MUGHOFUR, Section Manager of Environment and Development,
Sub-directorate of Trade Policy, Directorate of Multilateral
Cooperation, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Jakarta. |
|
Iran |
Mr.
Mohammad Reza ALIPOUR NANDEL, Expert, Multilateral Economic
Cooperation Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tehran. |
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Kenya |
Mr.
Michael Moses OTIENO, Trade Development Officer II, Department
of External Trade, WTO Division, Ministry of Tourism, Trade and
Industry, Nairobi. |
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Lebanon |
Miss
Lama OUEIJAN, Trade Economist, Minister's Cabinet, Ministry of
Economy and Trade, Beirut. |
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Malawi |
Miss
Christina ZAKEYO JERE, Trade Officer, Foreign Trade Section,
Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Lilongwe. |
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Malaysia |
Mr.
Mohd Daud MOHD ARIF, Assistant Director, Regional Economic
Cooperation Division, Ministry of International Trade and
Industry, Kuala Lumpur. |
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Mauritius |
Mrs.
Soraya Farah RAMJANALLY-NUTHAY, Trade Analyst, International
Trade Division, Ministry of Industry, Commerce and International
Trade, 8th Floor, Air Mauritius Centre, Port Louis. |
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Mexico |
Mr.
Guillermo MALPICA SOTO, Director of Multilateral Negotiations
and Regional Organizations, Directorate General of Negotiations
in Services, Ministry of Economy, Mexico D.F. |
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Mongolia |
Mr.
Urjinlhundev TUGSBILGUUN, Desk Officer, Department of Trade
Policy and Cooperation, Ministry of Industry and Trade,
Ulaanbaatar. |
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Qatar |
Mr.
Khalifa Ahmad ALSOWAIDI, Foreign Trade Researcher, Department of
Commerce, Ministry of Finance, Economy and Commerce, Doha. |
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Russian
Federation |
Miss
Elena Sergeevna ALDAKUSHKINA, Chief Specialist, Department for
Trade Policy and Multilateral Negotiations, Trade in Services
Division, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Moscow. |
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Rwanda |
Mr.
Elias BAINGANA, Executive Assistant to Ag. Commissioner General,
Office of the Commissioner General, Rwanda Revenue Authority,
Kigali. |
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Saint
Lucia |
Mr.
Andrew Osborne SATNEY, Senior Economist Affairs Officer,
Economic Affairs Division, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean
States, Castries. |
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Samoa |
Miss
Aida FAUMUI, Principal Trade and Investment Promotion Officer,
Trade and Investment Promotion Unit, Department of Trade,
Commerce and Industry, Apia. |
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Singapore |
Mr.
Soo Chuan ONG, Desk Officer, International Economics
Directorate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore. |
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Tuvalu |
Mr
Pugameau TAUFILO, Trade Officer, Ministry of Tourism, Trade and
Commerce, Funafuti. |
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Yemen |
Mr.
Hamoud Ali AL-NAJAR, Commercial Attaché (WTO Affairs),
Permanent Mission of Yemen to the United Nations Office at
Geneva and other specialized Agencies in Europe, Geneva. |
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Yugoslavia |
Mrs.
Sofija ARANJELOVIC, Senior Advisor, WTO Department, Ministry for
Foreign Economic Relations, Beograd. |
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Zambia
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Mrs.
Ikayi Gertrude SAMBONDU, Economist, Trade Department, Ministry
of Commerce, Trade and Industry, Lusaka. |
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