MULTILATERALISM AT A CROSSROADS

"MULTILATERALISM AT A CROSSROADS " 25 to 27 May 2004 WTO Public Symposium Centre William Rappard 154, rue de Lausanne 1211 Geneva, Switzerland PROGRAMME TUESDAY 25 MAY 2004 Room CR (Council Room) Badge Collection Lobby Council Room 07.30 – 09.30 Centre William Rappard PLENARY OPENING SESSION Chairperson: • Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi – WTO Director-General 09.30 - 12.30 Speakers: • Pascal Lamy – EU Trade Commissioner • The Hon Clement J Rohee M.P – Minister of Foreign Trade and International Co-operation, Guyana • Niall FitzGerald – Chairman and CEO, Unilever • Victoria Tauli-Corpuz – Executive Director, Tebtebba Foundation and member of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization • Eveline Herfkens – UN Secretary-General's Executive Coordinator for the Millennium Development Goals 12.30 - 15.00 BREAK Room CR (1) "Trade in Agriculture" Room W Moderator: Larry Elliot – Guardian, Economic Editor Speakers: * H.E Miguel Santiago Campos – Secretary for Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food, Argentina * Mary Minch - Director, DG Agriculture, EC * Jack Wilkinson – President, International Federation of Agricultural Producers * Joachim von Braun – Director-General, International Food Policy Research Institute, US * Ignasi Carreras – Executive Director, Intermon OXFAM Room F 14.00 – 17.00 14.00 -18.00 (2) "A Fair Globalization" (4) "What is Africa's role in the Multilateral Trading System?" Organizers: Global Unions 14.00 – 15.45 Organizers: WTO Room D "POLICY COHERENCE – The report of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalisation" Moderator: Giampiero Alhadeff - Solidar Speakers: * Guy Ryder – General Secretary, ICFTU1 * Eduardo Varela – Mission of Argentina, Geneva * Bettina Doeser – DG Trade, European Commission * Marita Hutjes – NOVIB, Netherlands 15.45 – 17.00 "POLICY COHERENCE INITIATIVES: Growth, Trade and Employment" International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (3) "Capacity Building – Innovative Ideas for Humane and Sustainable Development" Organizers: HSUS8 Moderator: Mary Estelle Ryckman – Assistant USTR for Trade Capacity Building Speakers: * H.E Francisco Lima – Ambassador of El Salvador to the WTO * Adolfo A Franco – Assistant Administrator, USAID * Patricia A Forkan Executive Vice President, HSUS * H.E Ronald Saborio, Ambassador of Costa Rica to the WTO Organizer: ICTSD4, AITIC5 Opening: Beatrice Chaytor – ICTSD Governing Board Member Roundtable I "Africa and the Trading System: Between Multilateralism, Bilateralism and Regionalism" Speakers: * Sisule Musungu – South Centre, Geneva * Peter Naray - ITC6 * Géo Govinden – Permanent Mission of Mauritius, Brussels, Belgium Roundtable II "Africa in the Trading System: Facilitating Strategic Integration" Speakers: * Samuel Gayi – UNCTAD 15.00 - 18.00 Moderator: Mike Waghorne – Public Services International * Iba Mar Oularé – Permanent Mission of Senegal, Geneva * Hezron Omare Nyangito – KIPPRA7, Kenya * Falou Samb - AITIC Speakers: * John Evans – TUAC2 , OECD * Neil Kearney - ITGLWF3 Roundtable III "Building Trade Policy Capacity in Africa" Speakers: * Mena Hassan – WTO * Nicolas Imboden – IDEAS Centre * Chandrakant Patel - SEATINI 18.00 - 20.00 RECEPTION FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS IN THE LOBBY OF THE COUNCIL ROOM Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD Humane Society of the US International Trade Centre Agency for International Trade, Information and Cooperation International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis WEDNESDAY 26 MAY 2004 Room CR I Room CR II Room W Room D Room E Room A 10.00 - 13.00 (5) "WTO Agricultural Negotiations: Addressing farmers' needs" Organizers: International Farmers' Coalition for Fair and Equitable Agricultural Trade Rules at the WTO Moderator: Jacques Bourgeois – Swiss Farmers Union Speakers: * Heidi Bravo – Swiss Farmers Union * Désiré Proqué – ROPPA * Robert Friessen – Canadian Federation of Agriculture * Hyungsung Hwang – National (6) "Regional Trade Agreements: Challenges and Opportunities" (7) "South – South Co-operation" Organizers: WTO Organizers: CUTS – CITEE9 Moderator: Guy de Jonquières - World Trade Editor, Financial Times Moderator: Dr Razeen Sally – London School of Economics Speakers: * H.E Alejandro Jara – Ambassador of Chile to the WTO * Dr James Mathis – University of Amsterdam * Carlos Primo Braga – Senior Adviser, International Trade Department, The World Bank Speakers: * H.E Luiz Felipe de Seixas Correa – Ambassador of Brazil to the WTO * H.E Toufiq Ali – Ambassador of Bangladesh to the WTO * Lakshmi Puri UNCTAD * Werner Corrales – Senior fellow, ICTSD * Nagesh Kumar – Director General, Research and Information System CUTS Centre for International Trade, Economics & Environment Sustainable Trade and Innovation Centre 11 International Institute for Sustainable Development 13 Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe 14 Federation of German Industries 10 (8) "Environmental Requirements and Market Access: An update on policy and practice – inside and outside the WTO" Organizers: UNCTAD, STIC10, IISD11 Moderator: David Runnalls – President, IISD "Overview of the State of Play" * Tom Rotherham – IISD *Nigel Garbutt EurepGAP *Pierre Hauselmann – ISEAL Alliance "Gaps in the Policy Framework" * Ulrich Hoffmann – (9) "Does the WTO still enjoy priority?" (10) "Environmental Goods and Services: Towards a Meaningful Outcome for Sustainable Development" Organizers: UNICE13, BDI14 Organizers: ICTSD Moderator: Peter Naray – International Trade Center Speakers: * Reinhard Quick – UNICE * Rodolphe Munoz – University of Liege * T.S Vishwanath – Confederation of Indian Industry * Herbert Oberhänsli – Nestlé SA Moderator: Amb Anthony Hill – Convenor of the Reflexion Group, former Amb of Jamaica to the WTO "Environmental Good and Services" * Sudhakar Dalela Permanent Mission of India to the WTO * Marta-Pia Hernandez – Permanent Mission of Nicaragua to the WTO * Ronald Steenblik Agricultural Cooperative Federation of Korea * Ricardo Serra Arias - COPACOGECA, EU * Raul Montemayor – Federated Free Farmers' Coop, the Phillipines * Ichiya-Takuo – Ja Zenchu, Japan * Kari Redse Haskjold – Norwegian Farmers Union for Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries, New Delhi – OECD *Tom Crompton – WWF, UK "Some Tools for a meaningful Sustainable Development Outcome" * Kevin Gallagher – Tufts University *Vicente Paolo Yu – South Centre *Sitanon Jesdapipat – Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Summary * Ritu Kumar – Exec Director, STIC 13.00 – 15.00 BREAK Room CR I 12 UNCTAD * Steven Porter – CIEL *Paulo Ferracioli – Head, INMETRO12 * Shashi Sareen – Director, Indian Export Council * Claus Sorensen – DG Environment, European Commission Room CR II Room W Brazilian National Institute of Metrology, Standardization and Industrial Quality Room D Room E Room A 15.00 - 18.00 (11) "Development Perspectives of the WTO's postCancun Agenda" Organizers: TWN15 Speakers: * H.E K.M Chandrasekhar Ambassador of India to the WTO * H.E Luis Felipe Seixas Correa Ambassador of Brazil to WTO) * Martin Khor Third World Network Chakravarthi Raghavan - Chief Editor, SUNS * Nelson Ndirangu Kenya Mission * Goh Chien Yen -TWN * Tim Rice ActionAid, UK * Meenakshi (12) "Developing countries in a changing trading system – issues and challenges" Organizers: WTO Moderator: H.E Ransford Smith Ambassador of Jamaica Speakers: * Dr Nagesh Kumar – Director-General, Research and Information Systems, India * Dr Razeen Sally – Head, International Trade Policy Unit London School of Economics * Dr Matthew Slaughter – Ass Professor, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth University (13) "Agricultural negotiations: Formula for Market Access, Special Products and a Special Safeguard Mechanism" (14) "Trade and Biodiversity – The Need to Find Common Ground" (15) "CSR and the WTO: Towards a Fairer Globalization or 'Misguided Virtue'?" (16) "Multilateral Competition Framework: Where and how?" Organizers: CIDSE16, Oxfam International Organizers: IUCN17, CESPGEETI18, CIEL19, RIIA20, ICTSD, UNEP, Precautionary Principle Project Organizers: Geneva Social Observatory Organizers: CUTS – CCIER21 Moderator: Celine Charveriat – Oxfam International, Geneva Speakers: * H.E Felipe de Seixas de Correa – Ambassador of Brazil to the WTO * Representative of Indonesia * Devinder Sharma – Forum on Biotechnology and Food Security, India * Luisa Bernal – South Centre Introduction: Achim Steiner – Director General, IUCN Moderator: Simon Upton – Chair OECD Roundtable on Sustainable Development "Agricultural Biodiversity" * Alejandro Nadal – Professor, El Colegio de México 15 Moderator: Katherine Hagen – Director, Geneva Social Observatory Speakers: * Auret van Heerden – Executive Director, Fair Labor Association * Bruce Moats - VP Public Affairs, LeviStrauss & Co + Kenan Institute Study Group on CSR * Hugh Pullen – DG Trade, European Commission Third World Network Coopération International pour le Développement et la Solidarité 17 World Conservation Union 18 IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy - Working Group on Environment, Trade and Investment 19 Center for International Environmental Law 20 Royal Institute of International Affairs 21 CUTS Centre for Competition, Investment & Economic Regulation 16 Moderator: Pradeep Mehta Secretary-General, CUTS Speakers: * Philippe BrusickCompetition and Consumer Policies Branch, UNCTAD * Frederic Jenny – Conseil de la Concurrence, France * Robert Anderson WTO Secretariat * Phil Evans – Consumer Association, UK * Taimoon Stewart – University of West Raman - TWN * Heidi Bravo – Swiss Farmers Union "Invasive Alien Species" * Richard Tarasofsky – RIIA * Paul Martin – Permanent Mission of Canada "Access and Benefit Sharing" * Leonardo Cleaver de Athayde – Permanent Mission of Brazil * Tom Jacobs – Head, ICC Taskforce on Access and Benefit Sharing *Dwight Justice – ICFTU * Tricia Feeney – Director, Rights and Accountability in Development Indies, Trinidad & Tobago * Patrick Krauskopf – Competition Commission, Switzerland * Josef Drexl – Professor, University of Munich THURSDAY 27 MAY 2004 Room CR I Room CR II Room W 9.30 -11.00 10 Room D Room E Room A (17) "The future of multilateralism" (18) "Trade, Tourism and progressive poverty alleviation" Organizers: WTO Moderator: Herbert Oberhänsli, Nestlé SA Speakers: * Johan Norberg – author of "In Defence of Global Capitalism" * Philippe Legrain – author of "Open World: the Truth about Globalization" and Organizers: World Tourism Organization Moderator: Geoffrey Lipman, Special Adviser to SG of World Tourism Organization Speakers: * Francesco Frangialli – Secretary General, (20) "How to improve the functioning of the WTO in the short and in the longer term?" Organizers: European Commission, BDI Moderator: Erfried Adam – FriedrichEbert Stiftung Speakers: * Dr Guido Glania – BDI * Céline Charveriat – Oxfam International (tbc) * Kobsak Chutikul – National Parliament of Thailand 22 Organisation for an International Geographical Indications Network Institute for Agricultural and Trade Policy 24 West African Farmers Organization 25 Collectif Strategie Alimentaire 26 International Union of Food workers 27 International Monetary Fund 23 11 (21) "Localisation within Globalisation: Better Protecting Geographical Indications to favour Sustainable Development" Organizers: ORIGIN22 "GIs contribution to Sustainable Development" Intro: * E Barham – Assistant Professor, Unversity of Missouri * Zoubida Charrouf – Argan Oil Producers, Morocco * Jean-Jacques Bret (22) "Agricultural Subsidies: What are we actually talking about?" (23) "The IMF's role in supporting the Doha Development Agenda" Organizers: IATP23, ROPPA24, Coordination SUD, CSA25, IUF26 Organizers: IMF27 Moderator: Alexandra Strickner, IATP Geneva Moderator: Stuart Robinson- anc Professeur, HEI Genève Speakers: * Daniel Ugarte de la Torre – University of Tenessee, US * Jacques Berthelot – Agronomist, France Speakers: * H.E Toufiq Ali – Ambassador of Bangladesh * Hans-Peter Lankes – Division Chief, Policy and 10.00 - 13.00 former adviser of WTO DG Mike Moore * Brian Hocking Professor of International Relations, Coventry University, UK World Tourism Organization * Anil Kumarsingh Gayan – Minister of Tourism and Leisure, Mauritius * Ralf Corsten – President, Berlin Messe Gmbh * H.E Alejandro Jara – Ambassador of Chile to the WTO * Dr Richard Senti – Professor, Institut für Wirtschaftsforschun g ETH Zürich * Representative of the European Commission – Director, Comité Interprofessionnel du Comté (FR) * Agnes Nyaga – VP Origin for Africa & Kenyan Tea Board "The case for better GI protection in the DDA framework" Intro: Brigadier Anil Adlakha – VP 12 * Ndiougou Fall – President, ROPPA, Senegal * Benedicte Hermelin – Research and Technological Exchange Group, France * R Dennis Olson – IATP, US Development Review Department, IMF ORIGIN & All Indian Rice Exporters Association (introduction) * Dawnine Dyer – Napa Valley Vintners, US Association * Stefano Fanti – Parma Ham Consortium, Italy * Feng Li Ming – Camus Cognac, China 11.00 – 13.00 (19) "Freer Trade: What does it mean for developing countries?" Organizers: OECD28 Moderator: Guy de Jonquières – Trade Editor, Financial Times Speakers: * H.E Adrian Macey – Ambassador of New Zealand to the OECD * Kenneth Heydon – Deputy Director, OECD Trade Directorate * Howard Chase – European Roundtable of Industrialists * H.E Alejandro Jara – Ambassador of Chile to the WTO 28 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development 13 13.00 – 15.00 15.00 - 18.00 BREAK Room CR I Room CR II Room W (24) "Challenging the Market Access Agenda, Ineffective S&D and the Flawed Accession Process" (25) "The impact of women in small, medium and micro enterprises on increasing trade under the WTO Agreements" (26) "The GMO dispute – rules, risks and reality" Organizers: Focus on the Global South Moderator: Rashid Kaukab- South Centre Speakers: Organizers: CBC29, GWIT30 Moderator: H.E Mary Whelan Ambassador of Ireland Speakers: * Carlos Braga – Organizers: FOE International32 Speakers: * Liana Stupples – Policy and Campaigns Director, FOE Int and Bite Back Campaign *Vandana Shiva – Director, Research Foundation for 29 Commonwealth Business Council Geneva Women in International Trade 32 Friends of the Earth International 33 World Society for the Protection of Animals 34 Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 30 14 Room D (27) "Trade, Technology and Development" Organizers: International Policy Network (IPN) Moderator: Julian Morris – IPN Speakers: * Johan Norberg – author of "In Defence of Global Room E (28) "Environment and Governance – what role for the WTO?" Organizers: European Commission Speakers: *Rupert Schlegelmilch – DG Trade, European Commission * Tom Crompton – WWF UK Room A (29) "How to apply Green Box payments for higher animal welfare standards in a non-trade distortive manner: Some international case studies" Organizers: WSPA33, RSPCA34, Eurogroup for Animal Welfare Speakers: * David Wilkins – WSPA * David Bowles – * H.E Nathan Irumba – Ambassador of Uganda * Aileen Kwa – Focus on the Global South * Jacques-Chai Chomthongdi – Focus on the Global South * Devinder Sharma – Forum for Biotechnology and Food Security * Dr Ajit Singh – Professor, University of Cambridge * Jane Kelsey – ARENA, University of Auckland 31 World Bank * Barbara Mowat – Impact Communications Ltd * Christine Agimba – Chair, OWIT31, Kenya * Anh-Nga TranNguyen – UNCTAD Gender Focal Point Science and Technology, India * Alice Palmer – Programme Director, FIELD, UK * Martin Khor – Director, Third World Network (tbc) * Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziahber – Director General, Environmental Protection Authority, Ethiopia (tbc) * Lori Wallach – Public Citizen, US (tbc) Organization of Women in International Trade 15 Capitalism" * Margaret Karembu – University of Nairobi * Andrew Shoyer – Partner, Sidly, Austin, Brown & Wood * Anatole Krattiger – Professor, Cornell University * Vice Yu – South Centre * Charles ArdenClarke - UNEP RSPCA * Christina Kaul – Eurogroup * Nico Bondt – University of Wageningen, NL * Representative of Agra CEAS Consulting, UK * Representative of European Commission ... Lima – Ambassador of El Salvador to the WTO * Adolfo A Franco – Assistant Administrator, USAID * Patricia A Forkan Executive Vice President, HSUS * H.E Ronald Saborio, Ambassador of Costa Rica... Centre Agency for International Trade, Information and Cooperation International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation Kenya Institute... Kobsak Chutikul – National Parliament of Thailand 22 Organisation for an International Geographical Indications Network Institute for Agricultural and Trade Policy 24 West African Farmers Organization