BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:unctad.org BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a8e921318582 DTSTART:20230820T060000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20230820T140000Z LOCATION:\, Iraq SUMMARY:First advisory meeting on services regulatory mapping in Iraq CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:UNCTAD supports Iraq’s WTO accession process in the area of c ommercial services\n\nUNCTAD will conduct an advisory mission to Erbil to assist Iraqi officials in the legal and regulatory audit pertaining to sel ected key services sectors\, including Finance/Central Bank of Iraq\, Tour ism\, Transport and Education services. The services’ legal audit is par t of the country’s preparation for WTO membership negotiations.\n\nAfter almost two decades of a stalled accession process\, due mainly to politic al instability and deterioration of the security environment\, the Governm ent of Iraq (GoI) is currently working to reactivate the accession negotia tions. Iraq’s application to join the WTO dates back to 2004. UNCTAD has been supporting the Iraqi Ministry of Trade (MoT) to improve its capacity and preparedness for meeting the technical and legal requirements of the accession process. This support includes trade policy advice to help the G oI in adopting a WTO consistent foreign trade regime\, including through t raining of negotiators and review of the accession-related instruments and documentation.\n\nIn this context\, the advisory meeting in Erbil\, will enable Iraqi authorities to undertake a thorough examination of the polici es and regulations governing the aforementioned services\, under the guida nce of UNCTAD’s experts. This exercise is a prerequisite step for an ord erly preparation of the initial offer on market access for services\, in l ine with the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). This\, in turn\, would allow the GoI to kick-start the preliminary round of bilatera l accession negotiations with WTO members on the services trade component.  \n\nUNCTAD assistance activities in Iraq are funded under the UN Develop ment Project Account (DA) - 13th Tranche 2021-2024. The project aims at su pporting Iraq\, as a post-conflict country\, in the area of trade policy f ormulation and trade negotiations.\n<\;h3 class="\;text-align-center \n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/first-advisory- meeting-services-regulatory-mapping-iraq DTSTAMP:20260826T071323Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a8e92131859d DTSTART:20230821T060000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20230821T140000Z LOCATION:\, Iraq SUMMARY:First advisory meeting on services regulatory mapping in Iraq CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:UNCTAD supports Iraq’s WTO accession process in the area of c ommercial services\n\nUNCTAD will conduct an advisory mission to Erbil to assist Iraqi officials in the legal and regulatory audit pertaining to sel ected key services sectors\, including Finance/Central Bank of Iraq\, Tour ism\, Transport and Education services. The services’ legal audit is par t of the country’s preparation for WTO membership negotiations.\n\nAfter almost two decades of a stalled accession process\, due mainly to politic al instability and deterioration of the security environment\, the Governm ent of Iraq (GoI) is currently working to reactivate the accession negotia tions. Iraq’s application to join the WTO dates back to 2004. UNCTAD has been supporting the Iraqi Ministry of Trade (MoT) to improve its capacity and preparedness for meeting the technical and legal requirements of the accession process. This support includes trade policy advice to help the G oI in adopting a WTO consistent foreign trade regime\, including through t raining of negotiators and review of the accession-related instruments and documentation.\n\nIn this context\, the advisory meeting in Erbil\, will enable Iraqi authorities to undertake a thorough examination of the polici es and regulations governing the aforementioned services\, under the guida nce of UNCTAD’s experts. This exercise is a prerequisite step for an ord erly preparation of the initial offer on market access for services\, in l ine with the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). This\, in turn\, would allow the GoI to kick-start the preliminary round of bilatera l accession negotiations with WTO members on the services trade component.  \n\nUNCTAD assistance activities in Iraq are funded under the UN Develop ment Project Account (DA) - 13th Tranche 2021-2024. The project aims at su pporting Iraq\, as a post-conflict country\, in the area of trade policy f ormulation and trade negotiations.\n<\;h3 class="\;text-align-center \n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/first-advisory- meeting-services-regulatory-mapping-iraq DTSTAMP:20260826T071323Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a8e9213185a3 DTSTART:20230822T060000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20230822T140000Z LOCATION:\, Iraq SUMMARY:First advisory meeting on services regulatory mapping in Iraq CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:UNCTAD supports Iraq’s WTO accession process in the area of c ommercial services\n\nUNCTAD will conduct an advisory mission to Erbil to assist Iraqi officials in the legal and regulatory audit pertaining to sel ected key services sectors\, including Finance/Central Bank of Iraq\, Tour ism\, Transport and Education services. The services’ legal audit is par t of the country’s preparation for WTO membership negotiations.\n\nAfter almost two decades of a stalled accession process\, due mainly to politic al instability and deterioration of the security environment\, the Governm ent of Iraq (GoI) is currently working to reactivate the accession negotia tions. Iraq’s application to join the WTO dates back to 2004. UNCTAD has been supporting the Iraqi Ministry of Trade (MoT) to improve its capacity and preparedness for meeting the technical and legal requirements of the accession process. This support includes trade policy advice to help the G oI in adopting a WTO consistent foreign trade regime\, including through t raining of negotiators and review of the accession-related instruments and documentation.\n\nIn this context\, the advisory meeting in Erbil\, will enable Iraqi authorities to undertake a thorough examination of the polici es and regulations governing the aforementioned services\, under the guida nce of UNCTAD’s experts. This exercise is a prerequisite step for an ord erly preparation of the initial offer on market access for services\, in l ine with the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). This\, in turn\, would allow the GoI to kick-start the preliminary round of bilatera l accession negotiations with WTO members on the services trade component.  \n\nUNCTAD assistance activities in Iraq are funded under the UN Develop ment Project Account (DA) - 13th Tranche 2021-2024. The project aims at su pporting Iraq\, as a post-conflict country\, in the area of trade policy f ormulation and trade negotiations.\n<\;h3 class="\;text-align-center \n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/first-advisory- meeting-services-regulatory-mapping-iraq DTSTAMP:20260826T071323Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a8e9213185a8 DTSTART:20230823T060000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20230823T140000Z LOCATION:\, Iraq SUMMARY:First advisory meeting on services regulatory mapping in Iraq CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:UNCTAD supports Iraq’s WTO accession process in the area of c ommercial services\n\nUNCTAD will conduct an advisory mission to Erbil to assist Iraqi officials in the legal and regulatory audit pertaining to sel ected key services sectors\, including Finance/Central Bank of Iraq\, Tour ism\, Transport and Education services. The services’ legal audit is par t of the country’s preparation for WTO membership negotiations.\n\nAfter almost two decades of a stalled accession process\, due mainly to politic al instability and deterioration of the security environment\, the Governm ent of Iraq (GoI) is currently working to reactivate the accession negotia tions. Iraq’s application to join the WTO dates back to 2004. UNCTAD has been supporting the Iraqi Ministry of Trade (MoT) to improve its capacity and preparedness for meeting the technical and legal requirements of the accession process. This support includes trade policy advice to help the G oI in adopting a WTO consistent foreign trade regime\, including through t raining of negotiators and review of the accession-related instruments and documentation.\n\nIn this context\, the advisory meeting in Erbil\, will enable Iraqi authorities to undertake a thorough examination of the polici es and regulations governing the aforementioned services\, under the guida nce of UNCTAD’s experts. This exercise is a prerequisite step for an ord erly preparation of the initial offer on market access for services\, in l ine with the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). This\, in turn\, would allow the GoI to kick-start the preliminary round of bilatera l accession negotiations with WTO members on the services trade component.  \n\nUNCTAD assistance activities in Iraq are funded under the UN Develop ment Project Account (DA) - 13th Tranche 2021-2024. The project aims at su pporting Iraq\, as a post-conflict country\, in the area of trade policy f ormulation and trade negotiations.\n<\;h3 class="\;text-align-center \n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/first-advisory- meeting-services-regulatory-mapping-iraq DTSTAMP:20260826T071323Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a8e9213185ad DTSTART:20230824T060000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20230824T140000Z LOCATION:\, Iraq SUMMARY:First advisory meeting on services regulatory mapping in Iraq CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:UNCTAD supports Iraq’s WTO accession process in the area of c ommercial services\n\nUNCTAD will conduct an advisory mission to Erbil to assist Iraqi officials in the legal and regulatory audit pertaining to sel ected key services sectors\, including Finance/Central Bank of Iraq\, Tour ism\, Transport and Education services. The services’ legal audit is par t of the country’s preparation for WTO membership negotiations.\n\nAfter almost two decades of a stalled accession process\, due mainly to politic al instability and deterioration of the security environment\, the Governm ent of Iraq (GoI) is currently working to reactivate the accession negotia tions. Iraq’s application to join the WTO dates back to 2004. UNCTAD has been supporting the Iraqi Ministry of Trade (MoT) to improve its capacity and preparedness for meeting the technical and legal requirements of the accession process. This support includes trade policy advice to help the G oI in adopting a WTO consistent foreign trade regime\, including through t raining of negotiators and review of the accession-related instruments and documentation.\n\nIn this context\, the advisory meeting in Erbil\, will enable Iraqi authorities to undertake a thorough examination of the polici es and regulations governing the aforementioned services\, under the guida nce of UNCTAD’s experts. This exercise is a prerequisite step for an ord erly preparation of the initial offer on market access for services\, in l ine with the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). This\, in turn\, would allow the GoI to kick-start the preliminary round of bilatera l accession negotiations with WTO members on the services trade component.  \n\nUNCTAD assistance activities in Iraq are funded under the UN Develop ment Project Account (DA) - 13th Tranche 2021-2024. The project aims at su pporting Iraq\, as a post-conflict country\, in the area of trade policy f ormulation and trade negotiations.\n<\;h3 class="\;text-align-center \n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/first-advisory- meeting-services-regulatory-mapping-iraq DTSTAMP:20260826T071323Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR