37th trade policy course starts

Government officials from twenty-one countries started on 1 May a three-month Trade Policy Course (TPC) in the WTO Secretariat at its Geneva Headquarters. The participants in the 37th TPC were welcomed by Paul Rolian, Director of the Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation, who chaired the traditional opening ceremony.

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The overall objective of the courses is to widen participants' understanding of trade policy matters, the multilateral trading system, international trade law and the functioning of the WTO. It is expected that the knowledge acquired during this course will allow participants to contribute to the promotion of a more active participation of their countries in the WTO work. Throughout the three-month training, officials will become acquainted, through lectures, debates, attendance at WTO meetings and simulation exercises, with virtually all the issues dealt with in the framework of the WTO. Visits to other international organizations located in Geneva will also allow them to become acquainted with trade-related aspects of the work conducted by these organizations.
Noting that participants would be in Geneva during a particularly important negotiating period of the organization, Paul Rolian invited participants to actively take part in the forthcoming training and to develop and strengthen a solid network of contacts by attending WTO meetings and discussing with delegates, WTO experts, and representatives of other organizations.
The 21 Spanish-speaking participants come from developing and least-developed countries (17 from Latin America and the Caribbean, 4 from Africa). Five officials come from least-developed countries. All sessions of the course will be held in Spanish.
The 37th Trade Policy Course is the third of the kind in the 2006 Geneva-based WTO training season. Another Trade Policy Course in English and a series of shorter courses, including two Introduction Courses for LDCs, two Specialized Courses, one on sanitary and phytosanitary measures and one on trade negotiations and two Specialized Course on Dispute Settlement will complete the Geneva-based programme this year. Four similar Trade Policy Courses, organized in cooperation with regional academic partners, will be held in different regions in the world until the end of this year. Other shorter courses and a large number of national and regional technical cooperation activities will take place in the field as part of the 2006 WTO Technical Cooperation and Training Plan.

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37th WTO TRADE POLICY COURSE (in Spanish)
Geneva, 1 May — 21 July 2006

Country	Participant
Angola	Sr. Joaquim Luciano FRAGOSO NETO, Asesor, Jefe de Sección, Gabinete de Intercambio Internacional, Ministerio de Comercio
Argentina	Sr. Agustín ZIMMERMANN, Secretario de Embajada, Secretaría de Comercio y Relaciones Económicas Internacionales, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Comercio Internacional y Culto
Brasil	Sr. Alexandre Jorge DE LIMA, Tercer Secretario, División de Servicios, Inversiones y Asuntos Financieros, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores
Brasil	Srta. Christiane SILVA AQUINO, Asesora del Coordinador General de Diferencias, División de Coordinación General de Diferencias
Chile	Srta. Ninel Viviana CALISTO SANTANA, Asistente, Dirección de Asuntos Económicos Bilaterales, Dirección General de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales
Colombia	Sra. María Ana Elvia SABOYA TORRES, Asesora de la Dirección de Integración Económica, Ministerio de Comercio Exterior, Industria y Turismo
Costa Rica	Sr. Federico ARIAS LÓPEZ, Asesor de Negociaciones Comerciales, Unidad de Monitoreo de Comercio e Inversión, Ministerio de Comercio Exterior
Cuba	Sra. Isamary GONZÁLEZ JOVER, Especialista en Política Comercial, Dirección de Organismos Internacionales, Ministerio del Comercio Exterior
Cuba	Srta. Tania Bárbara VÁZQUEZ GARCÍA, Especialista en Política Comercial, Dirección de Política Comercial con Europa, Ministerio del Comercio Exterior
Ecuador	Sr. Giorgio Andrés DEFILIPPI REGALADO, Director, Departamento de Comercio Exterior
El Salvador	Sra. Mariana Carolina GÓMEZ VÁSQUEZ, Negociadora de Medidas de Normalización, Dirección de Política Comercial, Ministerio de Economía
Guatemala	Sra. Clara Luz MARROQUIN DE LUCERO, Jefe, Departamento Normativa Comercial, Dirección de Administración del Comercio, Ministerio de Economía
Guatemala	Sr. Néstor Adolfo SALAZAR MEZA, Negociador Reglas de Origen, de Procedimientos Aduaneros y de Facilitación del Comercio, Ministerio de Economía
Guinea Bissau	Sr. Wilson Manuel FERNÁNDES DIAS, Jefe del Departamento de la Concurrencia y Precio, Ministerio de Comercio, Industria, Turismo y Artesanía
Haití	Sr. Jackson BIEN-AIMÉ, Segundo Asistente, Dirección de Asuntos Económicos y de la Cooperación, Ministerio de Asuntos Extranjeros y Culto
Mozambique	Sr. Arlindo Jorge MUCONE, Técnico, Departamento de Normalización, Instituto Nacional de Normalización y Calidad, Ministerio de Industria y Comercio
Nicaragua	Srta. Karen Gissell ALVAREZ CASTELLON, Analista de Comercio Exterior, Dirección de Organismos Internacionales, Ministerio de Fomento, Industria y Comercio
Nicaragua	Srta. Gema Karina GUERRERO VEGA, Analista de Comercio Exterior, Dirección de Organismos Internacionales, Ministerio de Fomento, Industria y Comercio
Panamá	Sra. Zereth del Carmen TORRES MÉNDEZ, Abogada Negociadora, Dirección de Negociaciones Comerciales Internacionales, Ministerio de Comercio e Industrias
Perú	Sr. Giancarlo LEÓN COLLAZOS, Funcionario Diplomático, Dirección General de la OMC, Subsecretaría de Asuntos Económicos, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores
Santo Tomé y Príncipe	Sr. Helder PAQUETE LIMA, Consejero, División de Asesoría, Ministerio de Economía