THIRD WORLD NETWORK

SEMINAR ON “CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE WTO:

PERSPECTIVE OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES”

September 14-15, 2000

Room 16, Palais Des Nations, Geneva

Draft Programme

DAY ONE – 14 September 2000

9.45 am Opening Session

                        Martin Khor (TWN)

                        Chakravarthi Raghavan (SUNS)

                        Rubens Ricupero (Secretary General, UNCTAD)

11.00 am Session 1

                        Strategic View of Current WTO Negotiations and Developing Countries’ Interests

                        Presenter: Bhagirath Lal Das

12.00 pm Session 2

                        Discussion on Agriculture negotiations (based on above paper by BL Das)

                        Discussants: Usha Chandne Dwarka-Canabady (Mauritius Mission)

                         S.I.M. Nayyar (Pakistan Mission)

                         Shishir Priyadarshi (India Mission)

3.00 pm Session 3

                        Services negotiations

                        Presenter:  Mina Mashayekhi (UNCTAD)

                        Discussant: Mohan Kumar (India)

4.15 pm Session 4

                        Panel discussion on Implementation Issues

                        Members : Amb. Fayza Aboulnaga (Egypt Mission)

                        Tadeous Tafirenyika Chifamba (Zimbabwe Mission)

                        Munir Ahmad (ITCB)

                        Yilmaz Akyuz (UNCTAD)

DAY TWO – 15 September 2000

10.00 am Session 5

                        Review of TRIPS

                        Discussants: Mohan Kumar (India Mission)

                        Nelson Ndirangu (Kenya Mission)

                        Cecilia Oh (TWN)

11.00 am Session 6

                        Review of TRIMS

                        Presenter: Xiaobing Tang (UNCTAD)

                        Discussant: Thomas Mathew (Malaysia Mission)

12.00 pm Session 7

                        Review of DSB

                        Presenter: Chakravarthi Raghavan (SUNS)

                        Discussant: Leo Palma (Philippines Mission)

2.30 pm          Special Session: Review of TRIPS (continued)

                        Presenter: Carlos Correa (University of Buenos Aires)

3.30 pm Session 8

                        New Issues

                        Presenter: Martin Khor (TWN)

                        Discussants: Amb. Nathan Irumba (Uganda Mission)

                        Amb. Halida Miljani (Indonesia Mission)

4.30 pm Session 9

                        Panel Discussion on Current Issues in WTO

                        Chair: C. Raghavan (SUNS)

                        Members: Amb. S. Supperamaniam (Malaysia)

                        Amb. Srinivasan Narayanan (India)

                        Amb. Ransford Smith (Jamaica)

                        Amb. Dhurmahdass Baichoo (Mauritius)

5.45 pm Closing Session

                        Bhagirath Lal Das

                        Martin Khor (TWN)