The meeting presents the first opportunity for the UNCTAD member States to discuss how to incorporate the outcome of the 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) of World Trade Organization (WTO) into the roadmap to achieve the four areas of transformation as set out in the outcome of the 15th United Nations Conference on trade and Development (UNCTAD15), the Bridgetown Covenant.
Focus
The event will focus on international responses to trade and development challenges in the short-term (ongoing supply and price shocks) and in the medium- to long-term (climate change, economic diversification).
Logistics
The event will be held in a hybrid format, with both physical and online participation, with interpretation in the six official UN languages.
Programme
Introduction:
- Ms. Miho Shirotori, Acting Director (alternate), Division on International Trade and Commodities, UNCTAD
Keynote Speakers
- Ms. Isabelle Durant, Deputy Secretary-General of UNCTAD
- Ms. Michele Griffin, Director, Policy Planning/Policy, Office of the Secretary-General, United Nations
Invited Speakers
- H.E. Mr. Chad Blackman, Permanent Representative of the Mission of Barbados, Geneva
- H.E. Mr. Ahmed Ihab Abdelahad Gamaleldin, Permanent Representative of the Mission of Egypt, Geneva.
- H.E. Mr. Kemvichet Long, Permanent Representative of the Mission of Cambodia to the WTO
- Mr. Edwini Kessie, Director of the Agriculture and Commodities Division and Head of the Delivery Unit, World Trade Organization
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Contact
Enquiries concerning registration:
UNCTAD secretariat
Intergovernmental Support Service
Palais des Nations
CH-1211 Geneva 10
Questions on preparations for this session:
Lisanne Losier
Deputy Secretary of the Trade and Development Board
Intergovernmental Support Service
T.: 41 22 917 4054
E.: correspondence@unctad.org
