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8:00 - 10:00
Registration, badge distribution

 
10:00
Plenary opening

• Introduction by Chairperson — Mrs. Touré Alimata Traore, Minister for Industry, Trade and Transport, Mali

Speakers:

• Mike Moore — WTO Director-General

• Pascal Lamy — EU Commissioner for Trade

• Dean Hirsch — International President of World Vision

• Jaime Serra — Serra & Associates International

• George Soros — Chairman, Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute

  
12.30
Chairperson announces work sessions and arrangements for moderators, discussants, venues and reporting procedures for final plenary session

 
2:30—5:30 pm
Work sessions: (click on each session for a list of participants)

I: Agriculture

II: TRIPS – Access to Essential Medicines

III: Trade and Environment

IV: Services

V: WTO & Civil Society

 
I: Agriculture — Issues and Negotiations

Issues to be covered: 

• agricultural reform — negotiations

• developing country concerns

• non-trade concerns

Programme: 

• Introduction by Moderator

• Presentations by Discussants

• Open discussion

• Summary by Moderator

Moderator: H.E. Mr. Pekka Huhtaniemi — Ambassador of Finland

Discussants: 

• Risto Volanen — Secretary General, COPA-COGECA
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• Lyall Howard — National Farmers' Federation, Australia
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• Dr. Magdi Farahat — Permanent Mission of Egypt

> Participants

  
II: TRIPS — Access to essential medicines

Issues to be covered: 

• The relationship between the TRIPS Agreement and the generation of and access to pharmaceuticals

Programme: 

• Introduction by moderator

• Presentations by discussants

• Open discussion

• Summary by moderator

Moderator: Adrian Otten — Director, WTO Intellectual Property Division

Discussants: 

• Professor Carlos Correa — University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Jeffrey Kushan — Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Washington, US

> Participants 
 

III: Trade and Environment

Issues to be covered: 

• (1) MEAs and WTO rules

• (2) PPMs and labelling / GMOs

• (3) Market access — Agriculture and Fisheries

Programme: 

• Introduction by moderator

• Presentations by discussants

• Open discussion

• Summary by Moderator

Moderator: David Runnalls — President, International Institute for Sustainable Development

Discussants: 

• on (1) Dr. Sitanon Jesdapipat — Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

• on (2) Professor Laurence Boisson de Chazournes — Head of the Department of International law, University of Geneva

• on (3) David Schorr — Director, Sustainable Commerce Programme, WWF US

> Participants

 
IV: Services

Issues to be covered: 

• (1) Regulation and liberalization under GATS

• (2) Participation of developing countries

Programme: 

• Introduction by moderator

• Presentations by discussants

• Open discussion

• Summary by Moderator

Moderator: B.K. Zutshi — former Indian Ambassador to WTO

Discussants: 

• on (1) Julian Arkell — International Trade and Services Policy (ITSP)

• on (2) Mohan Kumar — Permanent Mission of India 

> Participants
  

V: WTO & Civil Society

Issues to be covered: 

• (1) What role for NGOs in capacity building

• (2) WTO institutional reform

Programme: 

• Introduction by moderator

• Presentations by discussants

• Open discussion

• Summary by Moderator

Moderator: Dr. Sylvia Ostry — Toronto University

Discussants: 

• on (1) Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz — Executive Director, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development; 
  Pradeep Mehta — Secretary General, Consumer Unity & Trust Society
   

• on 2) John Bunzl — Director, International Simultaneous Policy Organisation
  Tetteh Hormeku — Third World Network, Africa Secretariat

> Participants

 

Saturday, 7 July  back to top

10:00—1:00 pm
Work sessions: (click on each session for a list of participants)

I: Food Safety and the SPS Agreement

II: TRIPS — Bio-technology/Bio-diversity

III: Trade and Development

IV: Services

V: WTO & Civil Society

 
I: Food Safety and the SPS Agreement

Issues to be covered: 

• (1) precaution

• (2) GMOs

• (3) Developing Country concerns

Programme: 

• Introduction by moderator

• Presentations by discussants

• Open discussion

• Summary by moderator

Moderator: Kazuaki Miyagishima — Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Kyoto University 
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Discussants: 

• on (1) Dominique Taeymans — Confederation des Industries Agro-Alimentaires de l'UE
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• on (2) Dr. Ned Groth — Senior Scientists, Consumers Union, USA
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• on (3) Dr. Hélène Coulibaly Fanny — Côte d'Ivoire
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> Participants 
 

II: TRIPS — Bio-technology / Bio-diversity

Issues to be covered: 

• Patenting of biotechnological inventions; 

• protection of traditional knowledge and genetic resources; 

• relationship between the TRIPS agreement and the CBD

Programme: 

• Introduction by moderator

• Presentations by discussants

• Open discussion

• Summary by moderator

Moderator: Professor Thomas Cottier — Institute of European and International Economic Law, University of Berne

Discussants: 

• Jeffrey Kushan — Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Washington D.C., USA

• Dr. Suman Sahai — Gene Campaign, India

> Participants 
 

III: Trade & Development

Issues to be covered: 

• Contribution of trade to development and poverty alleviation

• Importance of market access and equitable rules for developing countries

• Capacity building needs and mainstreaming of trade into development policies

• Trade liberalization, development and the environment — towards sustainable development

Program:

• Introduction by moderator

• Presentations by discussants

• Open discussion

• Summary by moderator

Moderator: David Runnalls — President, IISD

Discussants: 

• Dr. Dilip K. Das — Asian Development Bank

• Penny Fowler — OXFAM GB

• Jeffrey Schott — Institute for International Economics

> Participants 
 

IV: Services

Issues to be covered: 

• (1) Status of public services

• (2) Negotiating issues for the current services round

Programme: 

• Introduction by moderator

• Presentations by discussants

• Open discussion

• Summary by moderator

Moderator: B.K. Zutshi — former Indian Ambassador to WTO

Discussants: 

• on (1) Mike Waghorne — Public Services International

• on (2) Professor André Sapir — Université Libre de Bruxelles

> Participants 
 

V: WTO & Civil Society

Issues to be covered: 

• WTO institutional reforms (continued)

Programme: 

• Presentations by discussants

• Open discussion

• Summary by moderator

Moderator: Dr. Sylvia Ostry — University of Toronto

Discussants: 

• Rachel Thompson — Global Trade Practice, APCO

• Dr. Sothi Rachagan — Director, Consumers International, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

> Participants 
 

3:00—5:00 pm 
Afternoon — Final Plenary Session

• Moderators report on sessions (10 to 15 minutes each)
   

• Wrap-up by Chairperson of the Symposium