2016 ANNUAL SESSION OF THE
PARLIAMENTARY CONFERENCE ON THE WTO
What future for the WTO?
Geneva, 13-14 June 2016
Organized jointly by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the European Parliament
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
Monday, 13 June
10:00 – 12:30
10:00 – 18:00
15:00 – 15:30
Pre-Conference session of the Steering Committee (in
camera meeting,
IPU Headquarters)
Registration of participants
Inaugural session
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15:30 – 16:30
Mr. Krister Örnfjäder,
MP (Sweden), Co-Chairman of the
Parliamentary Conference on the WTO
Mr. Dimitrios Papadimoulis,
Vice-President of the European
Parliament [
tbc
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Ms. Amina C. Mohamed Jibril,
Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs
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(Kenya), Chairperson of the 10 WTO Ministerial Conference [
tbc
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Ambassador Harald Neple,
Permanent Representative of Norway to
the WTO, Chairperson of the WTO General Council
Presentation of reports and interactive debate on the substantive theme
Making trade work for development after Nairobi
Rapporteurs
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Mr. Paul Rübig,
Member of the European Parliament
Mr. Anurag Singh Thakur,
MP (India)
Mr. Helmut Scholz,
Member of the European Parliament
Mr. Dennis Dumisani Gamede,
MP (South Africa) [
tbc
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16:30 – 18:00
Dialogue with senior WTO negotiators and officials
WTO in the era of mega-regional trade agreements
Guest Speakers
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Ambassador Amr Ramadan,
Permanent Representative of Egypt
to the WTO, Chairman of the WTO Committee on Regional Trade
Agreements [
tbc
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Ambassador Marc Vanheukelen,
Permanent Representative of the
European Union to the WTO
Ambassador Daniel Blockert,
Permanent Representative of Sweden
to the WTO, former Chairman of the WTO Committee on Regional
Trade Agreements
Ambassador Junichi Ihara,
Permanent Representative of Japan to
the WTO [
tbc
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Moderator
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Mr. Bernd Lange,
Chairman of the Committee on International Trade
of the European Parliament, Co-Chairman of the Parliamentary
Conference on the WTO
18:00 – 19:30
20:00 – 22:00
Reception at the WTO
Steering Committee
(in camera meeting, IPU Headquarters)
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