WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  WT/INF/87 
13 April 2005 
 
 (05-1520) 
  
  
 
INFORMATION NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL 
 
WTO Public Symposium – 
 
"WTO After 10 Years: Global Problems and Multilateral Solutions" 
 
20 to 22 April 2005  
 
  The WTO Public Symposium has become over the years a very important platform for 
dialogue among all stakeholders of the multilateral trading system. It is now a significant feature on 
the international calendar. Its 2005 version is special as it marks the 10
th Anniversary of the WTO.  
The WTO's sixth Ministerial Conference will also take place this year in Hong Kong, China.    This year's Symposium – "WTO After 10 Y ears: Global Problems and Multilateral Solutions" 
– is therefore expected to stimulate a honest and thorough assessment of our first ten years and a 
discussion on our challenges for the future, hopef ully providing valuable support for the Doha 
Development Agenda and the multilateral trading system.    The Symposium programme will feature a plen ary opening with the participation of two 
distinguished personalities:  H.E. José Manuel Ba rroso, President of the European Commission and 
H.E. Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda.  The Plenary Opening will be followed by 
two WTO-organized High Level sessions; one on Trade, Economics and Growth, and the other on 
Institutional Challenges. The programme will then continue with parallel workshops organized by 
governments, non-governmental organizations  and intergovernmental organizations.  
  I am attaching the latest version of the progra mme for your information.  As was the case in 
previous years, the 2005 Symposium will benefit from the valuable input of Member and Observer 
governments. I very much look forwar d to your active participation. 
 
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"WTO AFTER 10 YEARS: GLOBAL PROBLEMS AND MULTILATERAL 
SOLUTIONS " 
 
20 to 22 April 2005  
 
WTO Public Symposium – draft programme  
 
Centre William Rappard 
154, rue de Lausanne 
1211 Geneva, Switzerland 
 
WEDNESDAY 20 APRIL 2005 
 
 
 Room CR (Council Room)   WT/INF/87 
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07.30 – 10.00 
 Badge Collection  - Centre William Rappard  
 
10.00 – 11.00 
 PLENARY OPENING  
 
Chairperson : 
 
Dr.  Supachai Panitchpakdi – WTO Director-General 
 
Speakers : 
 
• José Manuel Barroso – Presid ent, European Commission 
• Paul Kagame – President, Republic of Rwanda 
 
11.00 – 13.00 High Level Session on Trade, Economics and Growth  
 
 
Moderator :   Jean-Pierre Lehmann – Director, The Evian Group 
 
Speakers : 
• Abdou Diouf – Secretary General, Organisation internationale 
de la Francophonie 
• Peter Mandelson – Commission er for Trade, European 
Commission (tbc) 
• Dr. Edward Leamer – Professor, UCLA 
• Dr. Mariama Williams – Institute for Law and Economics, 
Jamaica; Development Alternativ es with Women for a New Era, 
IGTN and Center of Concern 
• Victor Chu – Chairman, First Eastern Investment Group High Level Session on WTO's Institutional 
Challenges  
 
Moderator :      Afsane Bassir-Pour - Geneva correspondent, Le 
Monde  
 
Speakers : 
• KIM Hyun-chong – Minister for Trade, Republic of Korea  
• Peter Sutherland – former GATT & WTO Director-General 
• Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane - Archbishop of Cape 
Town; spokesperson "Trade  for People" Campaign, 
Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance  
• Renato Ruggiero – former  WTO Director-General 
• James Bacchus – former member WTO Appellate Body; 
Chairman trade practice group, Greenberg Traurig 
 
13.00 - 15.00 
 BREAK  
13.00 – 15.00 
 ROOM A , 13.00 -15.00  
Brown bag lunch meeting– organized by European Commission 
"Expanding developing countries export  - Presentation of the EU helpdesk"  
 
 
 
 
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15.00 - 18.00 
  
(1)  "Trade in Cultural Goods and Services; Asessing the compatibility between 
trade rules and 
UNESCO's cultural diversity convention"  Organizers
: International 
Network for Cultural 
Diversity - INCD 
 Moderator
: 
 Speakers
:  
* Gilberto Gil – Minister of 
Culture Brazil 
* Jane Kelsey – Professor, University of Auckland * Garry Neill – Executive Director, INCD  
(2) "A world in development?  Workers, adjustment policies and employment 
in textiles and beyond" 
   Organizers
: International 
Confederation of Free 
Trade Unions - ICFTU 
 Moderator
: 
Anna Biondi – Director, ICFTU Geneva Office  
Speakers:
 
* John Evans – General Secretary, TUAC
1 
* Neil Kearny – General Secretary, ITGLWF
2 
* Tony Ehrenreich - 
COSATU3 
* Nazma Akter – General Secretary, BIGUF
4 
Chhorn Sokha – CCAWDU, Cambodia  
(3)  "Completing the Doha Round – Who needs to do what to ensure success?" 
 
   Organizers
: National 
Foreign Trade Council - 
NFTC 
 Moderator
:  
John Weekes – Senior Policy Advisor, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP, 
Geneva 
 Speakers
 
* Celine Charveriat – Oxfam International, Geneva 
* John Disharoon – 
Director, Public Affairs, Caterpillar Brussels  * Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz – Executive Director, ICTSD * T.S. Vishnawath – 
Confederation of Indian 
Industry, Geneva office * Liam McCreery – President, Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance  
(4)  "Agricultural Dumping, Import Surges and the Price Crisis – What reforms are 
needed?" 
   Organizers
: Coordination 
Sud, ROPPA5, CSA6, IATP7, 
FETRAF 
 The Case of Soy Beans  Moderator
:  
Alexandra Strickner - IATP 
 
Speakers:  
* Altemir Tortelli - FETRAF SUL, Brasil * Larry Mitchell – NRTV, US 
* Daryll Ray – University of 
Tenessee * Gerard Choplin – CPE, Europe  The Chicken case 
 
Moderator
:  
Fabrice Ferrier – Coordination Sud  Speakers
 
* Benedicte Hermelin – 
GRET, France * Ndiougou Fall – ROPPA  
(5)  "Transparency and Participation in the National Trade Policy Process" 
 
   Organizers
: International 
Institute for Sustainable 
Development -IISD8 
 Moderator
:  
Mark Halle - IISD  Speakers:
 
* Susan Aaronson – Kenan 
Centre, University of North Carolina * Robert Wolfe – Queens' University, Canada * Yash Tandon – South 
Centre 
* Anthony Hill - former Ambassador of Jamaica to UN, Geneva  
                                                      
1 Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD 
2 International Textiles, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation 
3 Confederation of South African Trade Unions 
4 Bangladesh Independent Garment Workers Union Federation 
5 Réseau des Organisations Paysannes et de Producteurs Agricoles d'Afrique de l'Ouest  
6 Collectif Stratégies Alimentaires 
7 Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy 
8 International Institute for Sustainable Development  WT/INF/87 
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18.00 - 20.00 
  
RECEPTION FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS IN  THE LOBBY OF THE COUNCIL ROOM   WT/INF/87
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10.00 - 13.00 
  
(6)  "Outstanding 
Issues in Agriculture and Impacts on Farm Policies"   
 
Organizers
: IFAP9 
 Moderator
:  
Jack Wilkinson – President, IFAP 
 
Opening/Closing 
remarks:  H.E. Tim 
Groser – chairman, WTO Agriculture Committee in Special 
Session 
 Panel I:
 
* H.E. David Spencer – WTO Ambassador Australia 
* H.E. Dr. Toufiq Ali – 
WTO Ambassador  
(7)  "10 years of 
Trade and Environment in the WTO: What has been achieved and what next?"  
 
Organizers
: European 
Commission, DG Trade  Moderator
: 
Rupert Schlegelmilch 
– EC, DG Trade 
 Speakers:
 tbc 
   
(8)  "Re-Thinking the 
Energy Paradigm"  
    
 
Organizers
: UN 
Foundation  Moderator
: Mohamed T. 
El-Ashry - Senior Fellow, 
UN Foundation 
 Speakers
  
(9)  NAMA is key!: A 
debate on civil society concerns about the NAMA negotiations"  
 
Organizers
: 
Greenpeace International, IATP, FOE Int.
10, ICFTU, 
PSI11, TWN12, 
Seatini13, IMF14, 
ActionAid Int., CIEL15, 
IFG16 
 Moderator
:  
Daniel Mittler – 
Greenpeace 
International  Speakers:
 
* Martin Khor – TWN * Tony Ehrenreich - 
COSATU
17 
* Carla Coletti –  
(10)  "Making Trade 
Support Development: Global Problems and Viable Alternatives"  
 
Organizers
: South 
Centre  Speakers:
 
* South Centre 
* Dr. Nagesh Kumar – 
Director-General, RIS, India * Johnny Gaudia – Vice Director, Association of the Footwear 
Industry, SMP, the 
Philippines * Representative of Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela  
(11)  "The small and 
vulnerable economies in the WTO and the Doha negotiationsto be announced"  
 
Organizers
: ABEPG18, 
AITIC19 
 Introduction
: 
* Dr. Esperanza 
Durán- Executive 
Director, AITIC * Susanne Köhler – Executive Director, ABPEG  
Speakers:
 
* H.E. Alvaro Moscoso Blanco – Permanent Representative of Bolivia * Dr. Roman Grynberg 
– Deputy Director, 
Commonwealth 
                                                      
9 International Federation of Agricultural Producers 
10 Friends of the Earth International 
11 Public Services International 
12 Third World Network 
13 Southern and Eastern  Africa Trade Information Negotiating Institute 
14 International Metalworkers Federation 
15 Center for International Environmental Law 
16 International Forum on Globalization 
17 Confederation of South African Trade Unions 
18 Asociacion Boliviana de Econ omia Politica de la Globalizacion 
19 Agency for International Trad e Information and Cooperation  WT/INF/87 
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* H.E. Luiz Felipe de Seixas Correa – WTO Ambassador Brazil * H.E. Carlo Trojan – 
WTO Ambassador EC 
* H.E. Luzius Wasescha – Switzerland * H.E. Linnet F. Deily – WTO Ambassador US 
 
Panel II
: 
* Robert Friesen – President, Canadian Federation of Agriculture 
* Peter Gaemelke – 
President, Ctee of Agricultural Organisations, EU * Tom Lambie – President, Federated 
Farmers, Ireland 
* Fernando Lopez -  President, Comision Nacional de Fomento Rural, Uruguay * Raul Montemayor - 
General Manager, 
Federation of Free Farmers Cooperatives, Philippines * Ajay Vashee – Chairman, Southern 
African Confederation 
of Agricultural Unions International 
Metalworkers Federation * Pedro Avendano – World Forum of 
Fisherfolk 
* Ronnie Hall – FOE International Secretariat 
* H.E. Trevor Clarke – Permanent Representative of Barbados; former 
chair dedicated 
session of CTD * H.E. Eduardo Ernesto Sperisen-Yurt – Permanent Representative of 
Guatemala 
* Dr. Sheila Page – Overseas Development Institute 
 
13.00 – 15.00 
 BREAK 
 
 
 
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15.00 - 18.00 
  
(12)  "Trade Policy and the farm income crisis in the context of WTO negotiations" 
 
   Organizers
: Canadian 
Federation of 
Agriculture 
 Moderator
: 
H.E. Don Stephenson – Permanent Representative of 
Canada to the WTO 
 Speakers:
 
* Bob Friesen – President, Canadian Federation of 
Agriculture 
* Daryll E.Ray – University of Tenessee * Ndiogou Fall – President, ROPPA, Senegal 
* Dave Frederickson – 
President, National Farmers Union, US * Kari Redse Haskjold – VP, Norwegian Farmers Union 
* Allan Burgess – 
National Farmers' Federation of Australia  
(13)  "Development Perspectives on the Current WTO Negotiations" 
 
   Organizers
: Third 
World Network 
 
Moderator : 
 Speakers:
 
* Martin Khor – TWN, Malaysia 
* Nagesh Kumar- RIS, 
India * John Hilary – War on Want, UK * Jacques Berthelot  Mouvement de 
Solidarité 
* Charles Abugre – Christian Aid   
(14) "Africa in the WTO – Does the first 10 years give any hope for an African Trading 
Future?" 
   Organizers
: TRALAC20 
 
Moderator : Trudy 
Hartzenberg – Executive Director, TRALAC  Speakers:
 
* H.E. Amina Chawahir 
Mohamed – Permanent 
Representative of Kenya to the WTO * Tenu Avafia – TRALAC * Paul Kalenga – TRALAC * Calvin Manduna – 
TRALAC 
* Petina Gappa - ACWL
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* Hilton Zunckel - TRALAC  
(15)  "Beijing + 10 meets WTO + 10"   
 
   Organizers
: IGTN22 
 
Moderator :  
Maria Riley – Center of Concern; IGTN  Speakers:
 
* Naty Bernardino – 
IGTN-Asia 
* Mariama Williams – Center of Concern; IGTN * Marianne Hochuli – Berne Declaration; 
IGTN-Europe 
* Aftab Alam – Action Aid, Pakistan  
  
(16) "Trade Facilitation: A Tool For Development"  
 
   Organizers
: UNECE23, 
AITIC 
 
Introduction : 
* Dr. Esperanza Durán – Executive Director, AITIC * Dr. Carol Cosgrove-
Sacks – Director, 
Trade, Development and Timber Division, UNECE   Speakers:
 
* Jean Kubler – Acting 
Chief, Global Trade Solutions Branch, UNECE * David Wakeford – Chief Executive, 
SITPRO 
* H.E. Valentine Rugwabiza – Permanent Representative of Rwanda (tbc) 
* H.E. Rigoberto 
Gauto Vielman – Permanent Representative of (17)  "Disclosure 
Requirements: Incorporating the 
CBD Principles in the 
TRIPS Agreement On the Road to Hong Kong" 
 
Organizers
: IUCN24, 
CIEL, ICTSD25, IDDRI26, 
Quakers  Moderators
: 
* Ricardo Meléndez-
Ortiz – ICTSD  Speakers:
 
* Begona Venero – Peruvian Patent 
Office 
*Felix Addor – Swiss Patent Office * Michel Gollin – Venable LLP * N.S. Gopalakrishnan 
– Cochin University of 
Science and Technology * Graham Dutfield – Queen Mary Intellectual Property 
Research Institute 
* Athul Kaushik – Indian Mission to the WTO  
                                                      
20 Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa 
21 Advisory Centre on WTO Law 
22 International Gender and Trade Network 
23 United Nations Economic Commission for Europe 
24 The World Conservation Union 
25 International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development 
26 Institut de Développement durable et des Relations Internationales  WT/INF/87 
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President, l'Union des Producteurs Agricoles * Daniel-Mercier Gouin – Professeur, 
Université Laval, 
Québec * Peter Clark – President, Grey, Shih and Associates Paraguay (tbc) 
* Alexy A. Kaulbars – Director, Ministry of Economic Development and 
Trade, Russian 
Federation (zbc) * Jadranka Zeni ć-
Zeljković – Head of 
Department, Ministry of International 
Economic Relations, 
Rep. of Serbia (tbc) 
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10.00 - 13.00 
  
(18)  "The WTO at 10: The perceived loss off sovereignty 
due to WTO accords: 
should parliamentarians be concerned?"  Organizers
: Inter-
Parliamentary Union - 
PU  Moderator
:  
Fernando Margáin Berlango – Senator, 
Mexio 
 Speakers:
 
* Enrique Barón Crespo – member of European Parliament 
* Laurence Boisson de 
Chazournes – Professor, University of Geneva * Ahmed Ezz – member of 
Parliament, Egypt 
* Anthony Hill – former Ambassador of Jamaica to UN, Geneva * Hassan Moradi –  
Starting time: 9.30
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 (19)  "SOLIDAR: 
Women Talk! – 
Decent Work: Decent Life"   Organizers
: SOLIDAR 
 
Introduction : 
* Zita Gurmai – President, PES Women * Namrata Bali – 
Secretary General, 
SEWA
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* Zohra Khan – One World Action  Panel Moderator
: 
Giampiero Alhadeff – 
Secretary General, SOLIDAR  Speakers:
 
* Barbro Budin -IUF 
* Coral Pey – Director, 
ACCJR28 
* Bernard Kuiten – WTO * Nazneen Kanji- IIED
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(20)  "NAMA and Agriculture: What would a pro-
development 
outcome look like?"    Organizers
: Oxfam 
International, TWN 
 Moderator
:  
Phil Bloomer – Oxfam Great Britain  
Speakers:
 
* Rajesh Aggarwal – Permanent Mission of India to WTO * Darlan Fonseca – South Centre 
* Martin Khor – Third 
World Network   
(21) " The REACH debate: regulating chemicals and the 
WTO" 
    Organizers
: FOE Int., 
Greenpeace Int., 
WECF, FIELD30, EEB31 
 Moderator
:  
Mary Taylor – FOE/Chemical 
Reaction Coalition 
 Speakers:
 
* Alice Palmer –FIELD * MK Tam – Greenpeace China 
* tbc  
(22)  "Mercantilism vs. Trade liberalization: Time 
for a Change of 
Mindset"  
   Organizers
: The Evian 
Group 
 Moderator
: 
Carlos Braga – Senior Advisor, World Bank  
Speakers:
 
* Herbert Oberhänsli – Head Economics And International Relations, Nestlé SA * Razeen Sally – Head, 
International Trade 
Policy Unit, LSE * Jean-Pierre Lehmann – Director, The Evian Group; Professor, IMD 
* Duncan Green – 
Head of Research, Oxfam GB  
(23) "The TRIPS Agreement Ten Years Later: The 
Relationship 
Between Trademarks and GIs"   Organizers
: GMA32 
 
Moderator : 
Dr. Justin Hughes – Assistant Professor, Cardozo Law School, New York University 
 
Speakers:
 
* Dr. Burkhart Goebel – Lovells LLP * Lynne Beresford – Deputy Commissioner 
for Trademark, USPTO 
* Clay Hough – Senior Vice President and General Council, International Dairy Foods Association 
                                                      
27 Self Employed Women's Association 
28 Alianza Chilena por un Comercio Justo y Responsable 
29 International Institute for Environment and Development - UK 
30 Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development 
31 European Environment Bureau 
32 Grocery Manufacturers of America  WT/INF/87 
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Parliament, Islamic Republic of Iran (tbc) * Prithvirajsing Roopun – member of 
Parliament, Mauritius 
(tbc) * Kimmo Sasi – member of parliament, Finland; member of Parl. 
Assembly of Council 
of Europe  
(coffee break at 11:30)  
 Discussion
: 
* Eva Kaluzynska – EC, 
DG Trade (Moderator ) 
* Zohra Khan – OWA * Juan Carlos Varga – PLADES * David Dorkenoo – 
TUC 
* Namrati Bali – SEWA  Conclusion
s: 
Rodney Bickerstaffe – Chair, SOLIDAR / 
IFWEA/ Global 
Network   
 
 
 
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