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DTSTART:20250220T090000Z
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LOCATION:Geneva\, Switzerland
SUMMARY:1st Preparatory Committee for the sixteenth session of the Conferen
 ce (UNCTAD 16)
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:At its 1236th meeting\, on 16 September 2024\, in accordance wi
 th past practice\, the Trade and Development Board established the Prepara
 tory Committee for the sixteenth session of the United Nations Conference 
 on Trade and Development and elected the President of the Trade and Develo
 pment Board as its Chair.The Board tasked the Preparatory Committee with t
 he substantive preparatory process leading towards the Conference.NOTIFICA
 TIONOn behalf of the Chair of the Preparatory Committee (Prepcom) for UNCT
 AD 16\, H.E. Ambassador Paul Bekkers (Netherlands)\, the UNCTAD secretaria
 t has the honour to inform member States that the first session of the Pre
 pcom will take place on Thursday\, 20 February 2025 beginning at 10 a.m. i
 n room XIX of the Palais des Nations.This will be the opportunity for regi
 onal groups and individual member States wishing to do so to present their
  respective position papers\, which will form a major basis for the elabor
 ation of the Chair’s draft negotiating text\, scheduled to be presented 
 on 24 March 2025.The proceedings of the meeting will be as follows:Opening
  by the Chair of the PrepcomVideo message by the Secretary-General of the 
 UN Trade and DevelopmentPresentation of position papers by groups and indi
 vidual member statesAny other businessRegional groups and member States wi
 shing to present their position papers are reminded that they should infor
 m the secretariat one day in advance of the meeting and provide an electro
 nic copy of their paper to correspondence@unctad.org.Additionally\, region
 al groups and member States are invited to limit their interventions to a 
 maximum of 10 minutes.If the position papers will be presented through pre
 pared statements\, it is also requested that copies of those statements be
  provided to the secretariat one day in advance to correspondence@unctad.o
 rg.(signed)Miguel R. BautistaSecretary of the Trade and Development Boardm
 ailto:correspondence@unctad.org\n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unc
 tad.org/node/47524
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