High Level Symposium on Trade and Development
Thursday , 18 March 1999

 

Programme

 

 

9:00 Opening Statement by Mr. Ruggiero

PANEL 2: TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES


Moderator: Mr. Rubens Ricupero,

Secretary General, UNCTAD,

MAIN SPEAKER
Mr. Carlos Alfredo Magari�os,

Director-General, UNIDO

9:30 DISCUSSANTS
Professor Marcelo de Paiva Abreu,

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Professor Arjun Sengupta,

Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India
Professor John Whalley, University of Western Ontario, Canada

10:30 DISCUSSION WITH PARTICIPANTS

14:00 PANEL 3: FURTHER INTEGRATION OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, INCLUDING LEAST-DEVELOPED COUNTRIES (LDCs), IN THE
MULTILATERAL TRADING SYSTEM


Moderator: Ambassador Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury,

Permanent Mission of Bangladesh, Geneva


MAIN SPEAKER
Hon. Mr. Alec Erwin, Minister of Trade and Industry, South Africa

Address by Sir Leon Brittan,
Vice President of the European Commission

14:30 DISCUSSANTS


Mr. Denis B�lisle,

Executive Director, International Trade Centre, Geneva
Mr. Robert Sharer,

Chief, Trade Policy Division, IMF, Washington, D.C.
Ms. Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka,

Special Coordinator for Least-Developed, Land-Locked and Island Developing Countries, UNCTAD
H.E. M. Moussa Tour�, President of Commission, West African Economic and Monetary Union, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

15:30 DISCUSSION WITH PARTICIPANTS

17:30 CLOSING REMARKS BY RENATO RUGGIERO