1
"WTO AFTER 10 YEARS: GLOBAL PROBLEMS AND MULTILATERAL SOLUTIONS "
20 to 22April 2005
WTO Public Symposium – programme
Centre William Rappard
154, rue de Lausanne
1211 Geneva, Switzerland
WEDNESDAY 20APRIL 2005
Room CR (Council Room)07.30 –10.00 / Badge Collection - Centre William Rappard
10.00– 11.00 / PLENARY OPENING
Chairperson:
Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi – WTO Director-General
Speakers:
- H.E. José Manuel Barroso – President, European Commission
- H.E. Paul Kagame – President, Republic of Rwanda
11.00 – 13.00 / High Level Session on Trade, Economics and Growth
(ROOM W)
Moderator: Jean-Pierre Lehmann – Director, The Evian Group
Speakers:
- Abdou Diouf – Secretary General, Organisation internationale de la Francophonie
- Dr. Edward Leamer –Professor, UCLA
- Dr.MariamaWilliams–InstituteforLawandEconomics,Jamaica;DevelopmentAlternativeswithWomenforaNewEra,IGTNandCenterofConcern
- Victor Chu – Chairman, First Eastern Investment Group
Moderator: Afsane Bassir-Pour -Geneva correspondent, Le Monde
Speakers:
- KIM Hyun-chong – Minister for Trade, Republic of Korea
- Peter Sutherland – former GATT & WTO Director-General
- MostRevdNjongonkuluNdungane-ArchbishopofCapeTown; EcumenicalAdvocacyAlliance
- Renato Ruggiero – former WTO Director-General
- JamesBacchus–formermemberWTOAppellateBody;Chairmantradepracticegroup,GreenbergTraurig
13.00 - 15.00 / BREAK
13.00 – 15.00 / ROOM A, 13.00 -15.00
Brown bag lunch meeting–organized by European Commission (speakers: Matthew Baldwin, Marta Moya Diaz – DG Trade)
"Expanding developing countries export - Presentation of the EU helpdesk"
Room CR / Room W / Room D / Room E / Room A
15.00- 18.00 / (1) "Trade in Cultural Goods and Services; Assessing the compatibility between trade rules and UNESCO's cultural diversity convention"
Organizers: International Network for Cultural Diversity - INCD
Moderator:
Speakers:
* Jane Kelsey – Professor, University of Auckland
* Garry Neil – Executive Director, INCD
* Roy Mickey Joy - Rotational Representative,
Permanent Delegation of the PacificIslands Forum to the WTO
* Jacques Béhanzin – Secretary General of the Panafrican Federation of Directors, Benin / (2) "A world in development?
Workers, adjustment policies and employment in textiles and beyond"
Organizers: International Confederation of Free Trade Unions – ICFTU, WCL[1]
Moderator:
Anna Biondi – Director, ICFTU Geneva Office
Speakers:
* John Evans – General Secretary, TUAC[2]
* Neil Kearney – General Secretary, ITGLWF[3]
* H.E. Charles Mutalemwa – WTO Ambassador, Tanzania
* Nazma Akter – General Secretary, BIGUF[4]
* Chhorn Sokha – CCAWDU, Cambodia
* Tanya van Meelis - COSATU[5] / (3) "Completing the Doha Round – Who needs to do what to ensure success?"
Organizers: National Foreign Trade Council - NFTC
Moderator:
John Weekes – Senior Policy Advisor, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP, Geneva
Speakers
* Celine Charveriat – Oxfam International, Geneva
* John Disharoon–Director, Public Affairs, Caterpillar Brussels
* Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz – Executive Director, ICTSD
* T.S. Vishnawath – Confederation of Indian Industry, Geneva office
* Liam McCreery – President, Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance / (4) "Agricultural Dumping, Import Surges and the Price Crisis – What reforms are needed?"
Organizers:Coordination Sud, ROPPA[6], CSA[7], IATP[8]
The Case of Soy Beans
Moderator:
Alexandra Strickner - IATP
Speakers:
* Altemir Tortelli - FETRAF SUL, Brasil
* Larry Mitchell – NRTV, US
* Daryll Ray – University of Tenessee
* Gerard Choplin – CPE, Europe
The Chicken case
Moderator:
Fabrice Ferrier – Coordination Sud
Speakers
* Benedicte Hermelin – GRET, France
* Ndiogou Fall – ROPPA
* Gerard Choplin – CPE
* Germano Battista – DESER, Brazil
* H.E. Ousmane Camara – WTO Ambassador, Senegal (tbc)
* H.E. Gusmardi Bustani – WTO Ambassador, Indonesia (tbc) / (5) "Transparency and Participation in the National Trade Policy Process"
Organizers: International Institute for Sustainable Development -IISD[9]
Moderator:
Mark Halle - IISD
Speakers:
* Susan Aaronson – Kenan Centre, University of North Carolina
* Robert Wolfe – Queens' University, Canada
* Yash Tandon – South Centre
* H.E. Toufik Ali – WTO Ambassador, Bangladesh
* Anthony Hill - former Ambassador of Jamaica to UN, Geneva
* H.E. Manzoor Ahmad – WTO Ambassador, Pakistan
* Caroline Dommen – Executive Director, 3D (Trade, Development and Human Rights)
18.00 - 20.00 / RECEPTION FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS IN THE LOBBY OF THE COUNCIL ROOM
THURSDAY 21 APRIL 2005
Room CR I / Room CR II / Room W / Room D / Room E / Room B10.00- 13.00 / (6) "Outstanding Issues in Agriculture and Impacts on Farm Policies"
Organizers: IFAP[10]
Moderator:
Jack Wilkinson – President, IFAP
Panel I:
* H.E. David Spencer – WTO Ambassador Australia
* H.E. Dr. Toufiq Ali – WTO Ambassador Bangladesh
* H.E. Carlo Trojan – WTO Ambassador EC
* H.E. Luzius Wasescha – Switzerland
* H.E. Linnet F. Deily – WTO Ambassador US
Panel II:
* Robert Friesen – Canadian Federation of Agriculture
* Peter Gaemelke – Ctee of Agricultural Organisations, EU
* Tom Lambie – Federated Farmers, Ireland
* Fernando Lopez - Comision Nacional de Fomento Rural, Uruguay
* Raul Montemayor - Federation of Free Farmers Cooperatives, Philippines
* Ajay Vashee – Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions / (7) "10 years of Trade and Environment in the WTO: What has been achieved, and what next?"
Organizers: European Commission, DG Trade
Moderator:
Rupert Schlegelmilch – EC, DG Trade
Speakers:
* Mark Halle – IISD
* John Audley – German Marshall Fund
* Richard Tarasofsky – RIIA
* Doaa Abdel-Motaal – WTO
* Bernice Lee – ICTSD / (8) "Re-Thinking the Energy Paradigm"
Organizers: UN Foundation
Moderator: Mohamed T. El-Ashry - Senior Fellow, UN Foundation
Speakers:
* Dr. Mersie Ejigu – President and CEO, PAES[11]
* Dr. Hermann Scheer – German House of Parliament; General Chairman, The World Council for Renewable Energy
* Ambassador Ira Shapiro – Of Counsel, Global Trade Practice Group, Greenberg-TRaurig LLP
* Dr. Hari Sharan – Chairman and CEO, DESI Power Ltd., India / (9) NAMA is key!: A debate on civil society concerns about the NAMA negotiations"
Organizers: Greenpeace International, IATP, FOE Int.[12], ICFTU, PSI[13], TWN[14], Seatini[15], IMF[16], ActionAid Int., CIEL[17], IFG[18]
Moderator:
Daniel Mittler – Greenpeace International
Speakers:
* Martin Khor – TWN
* Tanya van Meelis - COSATU
* Carla Coletti – International Metalworkers Federation
* Pedro Avendano – World Forum of Fisherfolk
* Ronnie Hall – FOE International
* Temistocles Marcelos Neto – CUT, Brazil / (10) "Making Trade Support Development: Global Problems and Viable Alternatives"
Organizers: South Centre
Speakers:
* South Centre
* Dr. Nagesh Kumar – Director-General, RIS, India
* Johnny Gaudia – Vice Director, Association of the Footwear Industry, SMP, the Philippines
* Representative of BolivarianRepublic of Venezuela / Starting time: 9.30!
(11) "The small and vulnerable economies in the WTO and the Doha negotiations"
Organizers: ABEPG[19], AITIC[20]
Introduction:
* Dr. Esperanza Durán- Executive Director, AITIC
* Susanne Köhler – Executive Director, ABPEG
Speakers:
* H.E. Alvaro Moscoso Blanco – Permanent Representative of Bolivia
* Dr. Roman Grynberg – Deputy Director, Commonwealth Secretariat
* H.E. Trevor Clarke – Permanent Representative of Barbados; former chair dedicated session of CTD
* H.E. Eduardo Ernesto Sperisen-Yurt – Permanent Representative of Guatemala
* Dr. Sheila Page – Overseas Development Institute
13.00 – 15.00 / BREAK
Room CR I / Room CR II / Room W / Room D / Room E / Room A
15.00 - 18.00 / (12) "Trade Policy and the farm income crisis in the context of WTO negotiations"
Organizers: Canadian Federation of Agriculture
Moderator:
H.E. Don Stephenson – Permanent Representative of Canada to the WTO
Speakers:
* Bob Friesen – President, Canadian Federation of Agriculture
* Daryll E.Ray – University of Tenessee
* Ndiogou Fall – President, ROPPA, Senegal
* Dave Frederickson – President, National Farmers Union, US
* Kari Redse Haskjold – VP, Norwegian Farmers Union
* Allan Burgess – National Farmers' Federation of Australia
* Laurent Pellerin – President, l'Union des Producteurs Agricoles
* Daniel-Mercier Gouin – Professeur, Université Laval, Québec
* Peter Clark – President, Grey, Shih and Associates / (13) "Development Perspectives on the Current WTO Negotiations"
Organizers:Third World Network
Moderator:
Speakers:
* Martin Khor – TWN, Malaysia
* Nagesh Kumar- RIS, India
* John Hilary – War on Want, UK
* Jacques Berthelot Mouvement de Solidarité
* Charles Abugre – Christian Aid / (14) "Africa in the WTO – Does the first 10 years give any hope for an African Trading Future?"
Organizers: TRALAC[21]
Moderator:Trudy Hartzenberg – Executive Director, TRALAC
Speakers:
* H.E. Amina Chawahir Mohamed – Permanent Representative of Kenya to the WTO
* Tenu Avafia – TRALAC
* Paul Kalenga – TRALAC
* Calvin Manduna – TRALAC
* Petina Gappah - ACWL[22]
* Hilton Zunckel - TRALAC / (15) "Beijing + 10 meets WTO + 10"
Organizers: IGTN[23], Action Aid
Moderator:
Maria Riley – Center of Concern; IGTN
Speakers:
* Naty Bernardino – IGTN-Asia
* Mariama Williams – Center of Concern; IGTN
* Marianne Hochuli – Berne Declaration; IGTN-Europe
* Aftab Alam – Action Aid, Pakistan
* Yassine Fall – UNDP; IGTN Africa / (16) "Trade Facilitation: A Tool For Development"
Organizers: UNECE[24], AITIC
Introduction:
* Dr. Esperanza Durán – Executive Director, AITIC
* Dr. Carol Cosgrove-Sacks – Director, Trade, Development and Timber Division, UNECE
Speakers:
* Jean Kubler – Acting Chief, Global Trade Solutions Branch, UNECE
* David Wakeford – Chief Executive, SITPRO
* H.E. Peter Brnõ – Permanent Representative of the SlovakRepublic
* H.E. Valentine Rugwabiza – Permanent Representative of Rwanda (tbc)
* H.E. Rigoberto Gauto Vielman – Permanent Representative of Paraguay (tbc)
* Alexy A. Kaulbars – Director, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Russian Federation
* Alexey Portanskiy – Director, Information office on Russia's accession to WTO
* Jadranka Zenić-Zeljković – Head of Department, Ministry of International Economic Relations, Rep. of Serbia / (17) "Disclosure Requirements:Incorporating the CBD Principles in the TRIPS AgreementOn the Road to Hong Kong"
Organizers: IUCN[25], CIEL, ICTSD[26], IDDRI[27], Quakers
Moderators:
* Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz – ICTSD
Speakers:
* Begoña Venero – Peruvian Patent Office
*Felix Addor – Swiss Patent Office
* Michel Gollin – Venable LLP
* N.S. Gopalakrishnan – CochinUniversity of Science and Technology
* Graham Dutfield – Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute
* Athul Kaushik – Indian Mission to the WTO
FRIDAY22APRIL2005
Room CR I / Room CR II / Room W / Room D / Room E / Room A10.00 - 13.00 / (18) "The WTO at 10: The perceived loss off sovereignty due to WTO accords: should parliamentarians be concerned?"
Organizers: Inter-Parliamentary Union - PU
Moderator:
Erika Mann – member of the European Parliament
Speakers:
* Enrique Barón Crespo – member of European Parliament
* Laurence Boisson de Chazournes – Professor, University of Geneva
* Ahmed Ezz – member of Parliament, Egypt
* Anthony Hill – former Ambassador of Jamaica to UN, Geneva
* Mohammed Khoshchehreh – member of Parliament, Islamic Republic of Iran
* Jai Prakash Meenowa – member of Parliament, Mauritius
* Kimmo Sasi – member of parliament, Finland; member of Parl. Assembly of Council of Europe / Starting time:9.30!
(19) "SOLIDAR: Women Talk! – Decent Work: Decent Life"
Organizers: SOLIDAR
Introduction:
* Zita Gurmai – President, PES Women
* Namrata Bali – Secretary General, SEWA[28]
* Zohra Khan – One World Action
Panel Moderator:
Giampiero Alhadeff – Secretary General, SOLIDAR
Speakers:
* Barbro Budin -IUF
* Coral Pey – Director, ACCJR[29]
* Bernard Kuiten – WTO
* Nazneen Kanji- IIED[30]
(coffee break at 11:30)
Discussion:
* Eva Kaluzynska – EC, DG Trade (Moderator)
* Zohra Khan – OWA
* Juan Carlos Vargas – PLADES
* David Dorkenoo – TUC
* Namrati Bali – SEWA
Conclusions:
Rodney Bickerstaffe – Chair, SOLIDAR/IFWEA/ Global Network / (20) "NAMA and Agriculture: What would a pro-development outcome look like?"
Organizers: Oxfam International, TWN
Moderator:
Phil Bloomer – Oxfam Great Britain
Speakers:
* Rajesh Aggarwal – Permanent Mission of India to WTO
* Darlan Fonseca – South Centre
* Martin Khor – Third World Network / (21)"The REACH debate: regulating chemicals and the WTO"
Organizers: FOE Int., Greenpeace Int., WECF[31], FIELD[32], EEB[33], CIEL, ETUC[34]
Moderator:
Mary Taylor – FOE/Chemical Reaction Coalition
Speakers:
* Alice Palmer –FIELD
* Stephen Johnson – Boots
* Estefania Blount – ETUC
* Vinuta Gopal – Greenpeace India / (22) "Mercantilism vs. Trade liberalization: Time for a Change of Mindset"
Organizers: The Evian Group
Moderator:
Carlos Braga – Senior Advisor, World Bank
Speakers:
* Herbert Oberhänsli – Head Economics And International Relations, Nestlé SA
* Razeen Sally – Head, International Trade Policy Unit, LSE
* Jean-Pierre Lehmann – Director, The Evian Group; Professor, IMD
* Duncan Green – Head of Research, Oxfam GB / (23) "The TRIPS Agreement Ten Years Later: The Relationship Between Trademarks and GIs"
Organizers: GMA[35]
Moderator:
Dr. Justin Hughes – Assistant Professor, Cardozo Law School, New York University
Speakers:
* Dr. Burkhart Goebel – Lovells LLP
* Lynne Beresford – Deputy Commissioner for Trademark, USPTO
* Clay Hough – Senior Vice President and General Council, International Dairy Foods Association
[1] World Confederation of Labour
[2] Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD
[3] International Textiles, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation
[4]Bangladesh Independent Garment Workers Union Federation
[5] Congress of South African Trade Unions
[6]RéseaudesOrganisationsPaysannesetdeProducteursAgricolesd'Afriquedel'Ouest
[7] Collectif Stratégies Alimentaires
[8] Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
[9] International Institute for Sustainable Development
[10] International Federation of Agricultural Producers
[11] Partnership for African Environmental Sustainability
[12] Friends of the Earth International
[13] Public Services International
[14]Third World Network
[15] Southern and Eastern Africa Trade Information Negotiating Institute
[16] International Metalworkers Federation
[17] Center for International Environmental Law
[18] International Forum on Globalization
[19] Asociacion Boliviana de Economia Politica de la Globalizacion
[20] Agency for International Trade Information and Cooperation
[21] Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa
[22] Advisory Centre on WTO Law
[23] International Gender and Trade Network
[24] United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
[25] The World Conservation Union
[26]InternationalCenter for Trade and Sustainable Development
[27] Institut de Développement durable et des Relations Internationales
[28] Self Employed Women's Association
[29] Alianza Chilena por un Comercio Justo y Responsable
[30] International Institute for Environment and Development - UK
[31] Women in Europe for Common Future
[32] Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development
[33] European Environment Bureau
[34] European Trade Union Congres
[35] Grocery Manufacturers of America