2016 Annual session of the Parliamentary conference on the WTO"What future for the WTO?"

10:00 — 12:30 Pre-Conference session of the Steering Committee (in camera meeting, IPU Headquarters)

10:00 — 18:00 Registration of participants

15:00 — 15:30 Inaugural session

• Mr. Krister Örnfjäder, MP (Sweden), Co-Chairman of the Parliamentary Conference on the WTO
  Speech

• Mr. Bernd Lange, Chairman of the Committee on International Trade of the European Parliament, Co-Chairman of the Parliamentary Conference on the WTO
  Speech

• Ambassador Harald Neple, Permanent Representative of Norway to the WTO, Chairperson of the WTO General Council

15:30 — 16:30 Presentation of reports and interactive debate on the substantive theme

Audio

Making trade work for development after Nairobi

Rapporteurs

• Mr. Paul Rübig, Member of the European Parliament
  Presentation

• Mr. Anurag Singh Thakur, MP (India)
  Presentation

• Mr. Helmut Scholz, Member of the European Parliament
  Presentation

• Mr. Dennis Dumisani Gamede, MP (South Africa)
  Presentation

16:30 — 18:00 Dialogue with senior WTO negotiators and officials

Audio

WTO in the era of mega-regional trade agreements

Guest Speakers

• Ambassador Daniel Blockert, Permanent Representative of Sweden to the WTO, Chairman of the WTO Committee on Regional Trade Agreements

• Ambassador Marc Vanheukelen, Permanent Representative of the European Union to the WTO

• Ambassador Amr Ramadan, Permanent Representative of Egypt to the WTO

• Ambassador Junichi Ihara, Permanent Representative of Japan to the WTO

• Ambassador Fernando De Mateo Y Venturini, Permanent Representative of Mexico to the WTO

Moderator

• Mr. Bernd Lange, Chairman of the Committee on International Trade of the European Parliament, Co-Chairman of the Parliamentary Conference on the WTO

Audio

18:00 — 19:30 Reception at the WTO

10:00 — 11:00 Hearing with the WTO Deputy Director-General, Mr. Karl Brauner
Speech

Post-Nairobi work: reflections on the future of the WTO

11:00 — 11:20 Briefing session

Audio

Enacting the Trade Facilitation Agreement

Keynote speaker

• Ms. Nora Neufeld (WTO Secretariat)
  Presentation

11:20 — 13:00 Continuation of interactive debate on the substantive theme

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Making trade work for development after Nairobi

13:00 — 15:00 Lunch break

15:00 — 16:30 Panel discussion

Trade as a vehicle of social progress: The gender perspective

Panellists

• Ms. Nurhayati Ali Assegaf, MP (Indonesia)
  Presentation

• Senator Azam Swat (Pakistan)

• Ms. Arancha González, Executive Director, International Trade Centre

• Ms. Noraini Ahmad, MP (Malaysia), Commonwealth Parliamentary Association

Moderator

• Ms. Inmaculada Rodríguez-Piñero Fernández, Member of the European Parliament

16:30 — 17:00 Briefing session

Audio

The riddles of the WTO dispute settlement system

Keynote speaker

• Ms. Valerie Hughes (WTO Secretariat)
  Presentation

17:00 — 17:30 Closing session: adoption of the outcome document

Rapporteurs

• Mr. Bernd Lange,Member of the European Parliament

• Mr. Pablo Zalba Bidegain, Member of the European Parliament

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GC Chair’s Talking Points