MULTILATERALISM AT A CROSSROADS

– Minister of Foreign Trade and International Co-operation, Guyana • Niall FitzGerald – Chairman and CEO, Unilever • Victoria Tauli-Corpuz – Executive Director, Tebtebba Foundation and m

"MULTILATERALISM AT A CROSSROADS "

25 to 27 May 2004

WTO Public Symposium Centre William Rappard

154, rue de Lausanne

1211 Geneva, Switzerland

PROGRAMME

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TUESDAY 25 MAY 2004

Room CR (Council Room)

07.30 – 09.30

Badge Collection Lobby Council Room Centre William Rappard

09.30 - 12.30

PLENARY OPENING SESSION

Chairperson:

• Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi – WTO Director-General Speakers:

• Pascal Lamy – EU Trade Commissioner

• The Hon Clement J Rohee M.P – Minister of Foreign Trade and International Co-operation, Guyana

• Niall FitzGerald – Chairman and CEO, Unilever

• Victoria Tauli-Corpuz – Executive Director, Tebtebba Foundation and member of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization

• Eveline Herfkens – UN Secretary-General's Executive Coordinator for the Millennium Development Goals

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Room CR Room W Room D Room F

14.00 – 17.00

(2) "A Fair Globalization"

Organizers: Global Unions

14.00 – 15.45

"POLICY COHERENCE – The report of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalisation"

Moderator: Giampiero Alhadeff - Solidar Speakers:

* Guy Ryder – General Secretary, ICFTU1

* Eduardo Varela – Mission

of Argentina, Geneva

* Bettina Doeser – DG Trade, European Commission

* Marita Hutjes – NOVIB, Netherlands

15.45 – 17.00

"POLICY COHERENCE INITIATIVES: Growth, Trade and Employment"

14.00 -18.00

(4) "What is Africa's role in the Multilateral Trading

System?"

Organizer: ICTSD 4 , AITIC 5

Opening: Beatrice Chaytor – ICTSD Governing Board Member

Roundtable I "Africa and the

Trading System: Between Multilateralism, Bilateralism and Regionalism"

Speakers:

* Sisule Musungu – South Centre, Geneva

* Peter Naray - ITC6

* Géo Govinden – Permanent Mission of Mauritius, Brussels, Belgium

Roundtable II "Africa in the

Trading System: Facilitating Strategic Integration"

Speakers:

* Samuel Gayi – UNCTAD

(1) "Trade in Agriculture"

Organizers: WTO

Moderator: Larry Elliot – Guardian, Economic Editor Speakers:

* H.E Miguel Santiago Campos – Secretary for Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food, Argentina

* Mary Minch - Director, DG Agriculture, EC

* Jack Wilkinson – President, International Federation of Agricultural Producers

* Joachim von Braun – Director-General, International Food Policy Research Institute, US

* Ignasi Carreras – Executive Director, Intermon OXFAM

(3) "Capacity Building – Innovative Ideas for Humane and Sustainable Development"

Organizers: HSUS 8

Moderator: Mary Estelle Ryckman – Assistant USTR for Trade Capacity Building Speakers:

* H.E Francisco Lima – Ambassador of El Salvador

to the WTO

* Adolfo A Franco – Assistant Administrator, USAID

* Patricia A Forkan - Executive Vice President, HSUS

* H.E Ronald Saborio, Ambassador of Costa Rica

to the WTO

1 International Confederation of Free Trade Unions

3

15.00 - 18.00

Moderator: Mike Waghorne – Public Services

International Speakers:

* John Evans – TUAC2 , OECD

* Neil Kearney - ITGLWF3

* Iba Mar Oularé – Permanent Mission of Senegal, Geneva

* Hezron Omare Nyangito – KIPPRA7, Kenya

* Falou Samb - AITIC

Roundtable III "Building Trade

Policy Capacity in Africa"

Speakers:

* Mena Hassan – WTO

* Nicolas Imboden – IDEAS Centre

* Chandrakant Patel - SEATINI

18.00 - 20.00

RECEPTION FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS IN THE LOBBY OF THE COUNCIL ROOM

2 Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD

8 Humane Society of the US

6 International Trade Centre

5 Agency for International Trade, Information and Cooperation

4 International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development

3 International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation

7 Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis

4

WEDNESDAY 26 MAY 2004

5

10.00 - 13.00 (5) "WTO

Agricultural Negotiations:

Addressing farmers' needs"

Organizers:

International Farmers' Coalition for Fair and Equitable Agricultural Trade Rules at the WTO

Moderator: Jacques Bourgeois – Swiss Farmers Union Speakers:

* Heidi Bravo – Swiss Farmers Union

* Désiré Proqué – ROPPA

* Robert Friessen – Canadian

Federation of Agriculture

* Hyungsung Hwang – National

(6) "Regional Trade Agreements:

Challenges and Opportunities"

Organizers: WTO

Moderator: Guy de Jonquières - World Trade Editor, Financial Times Speakers:

* H.E Alejandro Jara – Ambassador

of Chile to the WTO

* Dr James Mathis – University of Amsterdam

* Carlos Primo Braga – Senior Adviser, International Trade Department, The World Bank

(7) "South – South Co-operation"

Organizers: CUTS –

CITEE 9

Moderator: Dr

Razeen Sally – London School of Economics Speakers:

* H.E Luiz Felipe de Seixas Correa – Ambassador of Brazil

to the WTO

* H.E Toufiq Ali – Ambassador of Bangladesh to the WTO

* Lakshmi Puri - UNCTAD

* Werner Corrales – Senior fellow, ICTSD

* Nagesh Kumar – Director General, Research and Information System

(8)

"Environmental Requirements and Market Access: An update on policy and practice – inside and outside the WTO"

Organizers:

UNCTAD, STIC 10 , IISD 11

Moderator: David Runnalls – President, IISD

"Overview of the State of Play"

* Tom Rotherham – IISD

*Nigel Garbutt - EurepGAP

*Pierre Hauselmann – ISEAL Alliance

"Gaps in the Policy Framework"

* Ulrich Hoffmann –

(9) "Does the WTO still enjoy priority?"

Organizers:

UNICE 13 , BDI 14

Moderator: Peter Naray –

International Trade Center

Speakers:

* Reinhard Quick – UNICE

* Rodolphe Munoz – University of Liege

* T.S Vishwanath – Confederation of Indian Industry

* Herbert Oberhänsli – Nestlé SA

(10)

"Environmental Goods and Services: Towards a Meaningful Outcome for Sustainable Development"

Organizers: ICTSD

Moderator: Amb Anthony Hill – Convenor of the Reflexion Group, former Amb of Jamaica to the WTO

"Environmental Good and Services"

* Sudhakar Dalela -Permanent Mission

of India to the WTO

* Marta-Pia Hernandez – Permanent Mission

of Nicaragua to the WTO

* Ronald Steenblik

9 CUTS Centre for International Trade, Economics & Environment

10 Sustainable Trade and Innovation Centre

11 International Institute for Sustainable Development

13 Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe

14 Federation of German Industries

6

Agricultural Cooperative Federation of Korea

* Ricardo Serra Arias - COPA-COGECA, EU

* Raul Montemayor – Federated Free Farmers' Coop, the Phillipines

* Ichiya-Takuo – Ja Zenchu, Japan

* Kari Redse Haskjold – Norwegian Farmers Union

for Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries, New Delhi

UNCTAD

* Steven Porter – CIEL

*Paulo Ferracioli – Head, INMETRO12

* Shashi Sareen – Director, Indian Export Council

* Claus Sorensen –

DG Environment, European

Commission

Summary

* Ritu Kumar – Exec Director, STIC

– OECD

*Tom Crompton – WWF, UK

"Some Tools for

a meaningful Sustainable Development Outcome"

* Kevin Gallagher – Tufts University

*Vicente Paolo Yu – South Centre

*Sitanon Jesdapipat – Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

12 Brazilian National Institute of Metrology, Standardization and Industrial Quality

7

15.00 - 18.00 (11)

"Development Perspectives of the WTO's post-Cancun Agenda"

Organizers: TWN 15

Speakers:

* H.E K.M

Chandrasekhar - Ambassador of India to the WTO

* H.E Luis Felipe Seixas Correa - Ambassador of Brazil to WTO)

* Martin Khor - Third World Network Chakravarthi Raghavan - Chief Editor, SUNS

* Nelson Ndirangu -Kenya Mission

* Goh Chien Yen -TWN

* Tim Rice - ActionAid, UK

* Meenakshi

(12) "Developing countries in a changing trading system – issues and challenges"

Organizers: WTO

Moderator: H.E

Ransford Smith - Ambassador of Jamaica

Speakers:

* Dr Nagesh Kumar – Director-General, Research and Information Systems, India

* Dr Razeen Sally – Head, International Trade Policy Unit - London School of Economics

* Dr Matthew Slaughter – Ass

Professor, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth

University

(13) "Agricultural negotiations:

Formula for Market Access, Special Products and a Special Safeguard Mechanism"

Organizers: CIDSE 16 , Oxfam

International

Moderator: Celine Charveriat – Oxfam International, Geneva Speakers:

* H.E Felipe de Seixas de Correa – Ambassador of Brazil

to the WTO

* Representative of Indonesia

* Devinder Sharma – Forum on

Biotechnology and Food Security, India * Luisa Bernal – South Centre

(14) "Trade and Biodiversity – The Need to Find Common Ground"

Organizers:

IUCN 17 , CESP-GEETI 18 , CIEL 19 , RIIA 20 , ICTSD,

UNEP, Precautionary

Principle Project

Introduction: Achim Steiner – Director General, IUCN Moderator: Simon Upton – Chair OECD Roundtable

on Sustainable Development

"Agricultural Biodiversity"

* Alejandro Nadal – Professor, El Colegio de México

(15) "CSR and the WTO:

Towards a Fairer Globalization or 'Misguided Virtue'?"

Organizers:

Geneva Social Observatory

Moderator:

Katherine Hagen – Director, Geneva Social Observatory Speakers:

* Auret van Heerden – Executive Director, Fair Labor

Association

* Bruce Moats - VP Public Affairs, Levi-Strauss & Co + Kenan Institute Study Group on CSR

* Hugh Pullen – DG Trade, European Commission

(16) "Multilateral Competition Framework: Where and how?"

Organizers: CUTS –

CCIER 21

Moderator:

Pradeep Mehta - Secretary-General, CUTS

Speakers:

* Philippe Brusick- Competition and Consumer Policies Branch, UNCTAD

* Frederic Jenny – Conseil de la Concurrence, France

* Robert Anderson -WTO Secretariat

* Phil Evans – Consumer Association, UK

* Taimoon Stewart – University of West

15 Third World Network

16 Coopération International pour le Développement et la Solidarité

17 World Conservation Union

18 IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy - Working Group on Environment, Trade and Investment

19 Center for International Environmental Law

20 Royal Institute of International Affairs

21 CUTS Centre for Competition, Investment & Economic Regulation

8

Raman - TWN * Heidi Bravo –

Swiss Farmers Union

"Invasive Alien Species"

* Richard Tarasofsky – RIIA

* Paul Martin – Permanent Mission

of Canada

"Access and Benefit Sharing"

* Leonardo Cleaver

de Athayde – Permanent Mission

of Brazil

* Tom Jacobs – Head, ICC Taskforce on Access and Benefit Sharing

*Dwight Justice – ICFTU

* Tricia Feeney – Director, Rights and Accountability

in Development

Indies, Trinidad & Tobago

* Patrick Krauskopf – Competition Commission, Switzerland

* Josef Drexl – Professor, University of Munich

9

THURSDAY 27 MAY 2004

9.30 -11.00

10

(18) "Trade, Tourism and progressive poverty alleviation"

Organizers: World

Tourism Organization

Moderator:

Geoffrey Lipman, Special Adviser to

SG of World Tourism Organization Speakers:

* Francesco Frangialli – Secretary General,

(17) "The future

of multilateralism"

Organizers: WTO

Moderator: Herbert

Oberhänsli, Nestlé

SA

Speakers:

* Johan Norberg –

author of "In

Defence of Global

Capitalism"

* Philippe Legrain –

author of "Open

World: the Truth

about

Globalization" and

(20) "How to improve the functioning of the WTO in the short and in the longer term?"

Organizers:

European Commission, BDI

Moderator: Erfried Adam – Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung Speakers:

* Dr Guido Glania – BDI

* Céline Charveriat – Oxfam

International (tbc)

* Kobsak Chutikul – National Parliament

of Thailand

(21) "Localisation within Globalisation:

Better Protecting Geographical Indications to favour Sustainable Development"

Organizers:

ORIGIN 22

"GIs contribution

to Sustainable Development"

Intro: * E Barham – Assistant Professor, Unversity of Missouri

* Zoubida Charrouf – Argan Oil

Producers, Morocco

* Jean-Jacques Bret

(22) "Agricultural Subsidies: What are we actually talking about?"

Organizers: IATP 23 , ROPPA 24 ,

Coordination SUD, CSA 25 , IUF 26

Moderator:

Alexandra Strickner, IATP Geneva Speakers:

* Daniel Ugarte de

la Torre – University

of Tenessee, US

* Jacques Berthelot – Agronomist, France

(23) "The IMF's role in supporting the Doha Development Agenda"

Organizers:

IMF 27

Moderator: Stuart Robinson- anc Professeur, HEI Genève

Speakers:

* H.E Toufiq Ali – Ambassador of Bangladesh

* Hans-Peter Lankes – Division Chief, Policy and

22 Organisation for an International Geographical Indications Network

23 Institute for Agricultural and Trade Policy

24 West African Farmers Organization

25 Collectif Strategie Alimentaire

26 International Union of Food workers

27 International Monetary Fund

11

10.00 - 13.00 former adviser of

WTO DG Mike Moore

* Brian Hocking -Professor of International Relations, Coventry University, UK

World Tourism Organization

* Anil Kumarsingh Gayan – Minister of Tourism and Leisure, Mauritius

* Ralf Corsten – President, Berlin Messe Gmbh

* H.E Alejandro Jara – Ambassador

of Chile to the WTO

* Dr Richard Senti – Professor, Institut für

Wirtschaftsforschun

g ETH Zürich

* Representative of the European Commission

– Director, Comité Interprofessionnel

du Comté (FR)

* Agnes Nyaga – VP Origin for Africa &

Kenyan Tea Board

"The case for better GI protection in the DDA framework"

Intro: Brigadier Anil Adlakha – VP

* Ndiougou Fall – President, ROPPA, Senegal

* Benedicte Hermelin – Research and Technological Exchange Group, France

* R Dennis Olson – IATP, US

Development Review Department, IMF

12

ORIGIN & All Indian Rice Exporters Association (introduction)

* Dawnine Dyer – Napa Valley Vintners, US Association

* Stefano Fanti – Parma Ham Consortium, Italy

* Feng Li Ming – Camus Cognac, China

11.00 – 13.00

(19) "Freer Trade: What does

it mean for developing countries?"

Organizers: OECD 28

Moderator:

Guy de Jonquières – Trade Editor, Financial Times Speakers:

* H.E Adrian Macey – Ambassador of New Zealand to the OECD

* Kenneth Heydon – Deputy Director, OECD Trade Directorate

* Howard Chase – European

Roundtable of Industrialists

* H.E Alejandro Jara – Ambassador

of Chile to the WTO

28 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

13

13.00 – 15.00 BREAK

"Challenging the Market Access Agenda, Ineffective S&D and the Flawed Accession Process"

Organizers: Focus

on the Global South

Moderator: Rashid Kaukab- South Centre

Speakers:

(25) "The impact of women in small, medium and micro enterprises on increasing trade under the WTO Agreements"

Organizers: CBC 29 , GWIT 30

Moderator: H.E

Mary Whelan - Ambassador of Ireland

Speakers:

* Carlos Braga –

(26) "The GMO dispute – rules, risks and reality"

Organizers: FOE

International 32

Speakers:

* Liana Stupples – Policy and Campaigns Director, FOE Int and Bite Back Campaign

*Vandana Shiva – Director, Research Foundation for

(27) "Trade, Technology and Development"

Organizers:

International Policy Network (IPN)

Moderator: Julian Morris – IPN Speakers:

* Johan Norberg – author of "In Defence of Global

(28)

"Environment and Governance – what role for the WTO?"

Organizers:

European Commission

Speakers:

*Rupert Schlegelmilch – DG Trade, European Commission

* Tom Crompton – WWF UK

(29) "How to apply Green Box payments for higher animal welfare standards in a non-trade distortive manner: Some international case studies"

Organizers:

WSPA 33 , RSPCA 34 , Eurogroup for Animal Welfare

Speakers:

* David Wilkins – WSPA

* David Bowles –

29 Commonwealth Business Council

30 Geneva Women in International Trade

32 Friends of the Earth International

33 World Society for the Protection of Animals

34 Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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