Twenty-five government officials from ministries of trade, industry and commerce and foreign affairs from Asia and the Pacific have been selected to attend the first UNCTAD/ESCAP regional training course on key issues on the international economic agenda. The course will be held at the newly opened International Institute on Trade and Development (ITD) in Bangkok, 18-29 November.
This course is one of a series of courses mandated by the Bangkok Plan of Action adopted at UNCTAD X in February 2000. At that meeting, UNCTAD was requested to strengthen the understanding of decision-makers from developing countries of key development issues on the international economic agenda within UNCTAD´s field of competence. Three other regional courses are planned in 2003, in conjunction with ECLAC (Santiago, Chile), ECA (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) and ESCWA (Beirut, Lebanon).
