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World
Trade Organization Symposium on
Issues Confronting the World Trade System
WTO Headquarters, Geneva, 6-7 July 2001
Approximately
450 representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), governments,
businesses, academia and the media attended the WTO Symposium, which
served as a forum for the exchange of views on critical issues confronting
the world trading system. Participants met in plenary sessions and convened
in work sessions focusing on: agriculture; food safety and sanitary
and phytosanitary standards; trade related intellectual property rights
(TRIPS) - access to essential medicines and biotechnology/biodiversity;
trade and environment; trade in services; and WTO and civil society.
During the closing plenary, the moderators of the work sessions summarized
the issues covered during the discussions in each group, highlighting
a spectrum of views expressed and noting that the debates had been rich
and led to a clearer understanding of the various perspectives on issues
confronting the world trading system. Above
left: The new conference facility of the WTO, site of the Symposium
on issues confronting world trade.
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Photos and RealAudio from Saturday, 7 July - Closing Plenary | ![]() |
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Reports of the moderators to the Final Plenary | ||
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Bird's-eye view of the dias during the closing Plenary | |
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David Runnalls, President of IISD, presented the following two concluding reports: |
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Closing statements | ||
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Moore congratulating Touare, minutes after the close of the final Plenary | |
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