  15 August – India´s Foreign Minister said on Tuesday that UNCTAD is "greatly valued" by developing countries and that under Mr. Supachai´s leadership, the organization was playing a "key and dynamic role" in the UN´s development architecture.
  15 August - UNCTAD´s new global database provides trade statistics on creative goods and services based on official data from more than 130 countries and covering the period 1996-2006.
  13 August - "The Doha Round can create new opportunities for development, but no guarantees", said UNCTAD Secretary-General Supachai Panitchpakdi in New Delhi today. "For this to happen, we will first have to help developing countries build the productive capacity they need to create sustainable growth and human development."
  31 July - It is deeply disappointing that, after so much work over 7 years by all WTO members, the latest Ministerial meeting in Geneva failed to produce the desired result.
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