Unnayan Onneshan has organized
a seminar titled “WTO: Concerns for Bangladesh”
which was held on Saturday, 08 December, 2007 at
9:30am at BRAC Centre, Mohakhali, Dhaka
The seminar was aimed to highlight the
challenges Bangladesh facing in the upcoming WTO
trade negotiations. The seminar created an
opportunity to listen to stakeholders’ concerns
and to provide evidence-support and technical
capacity to the Government of Bangladesh in
advancing its negotiating stances. 5 papers were
presented in the seminar.
Status Quo of the WTO negotiations on Global
perspective
Dr .Mareike Meyn, Overseas Development
Institute, UK
Agriculture: Concerns for Food Security: Are the
NFILDCs at the Receiving End?
Dr Saleh Ahmed, Associate, Unnayan Onneshan.
GATS- Mode 4: Benefits from the Movement of
Natural Persons: How to operationalise the LDC
modality agreed before Cancun Ministerial?
Dr Nazneen Ahmed, Research Fellow, BIDS.
Non-Agricultural Market Access: How do we
enhance market access?
Dr Dilip K Roy, Senior Research Fellow,
BIDS.
Aid for Trade Initiative for LDCs: Is it a lip
service by donors?
Mr. Iqbal Ahmed, Research Associate Unnayan
Onneshan.
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Commerce Secretary, Mr. Feroz
Ahmed, attended the conference as chief guest
while president of MCCI, Mr Latifur Rahman, was
the special guest on the occasion. Former
Commerce Secretary, Mr. Suhel Ahmed Choudhury
chaired the seminar while a host of trade
experts presented papers on the above mentioned
issues.
Unnayan Onneshan is actively working so that the
outcomes of the seminar enables the negotiators
to understand, and respond to political and
technical arguments in the Doha Round
Negotiations with a view to advancing the trade
interests of the country and livelihood of the
people.
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