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CARICOM TRADE MINISTERS AND WTO HEAD TO MEET IN GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

Caribbean Trade Ministers will meet with the Mexican Foreign Minister and the Director General of the World Trade Organisation, (WTO), Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi in Georgetown, Guyana on Friday 28 November, 2003. H.E Ernesto Derbez, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico was the Chairman of the Fifth Session of the WTO Ministerial Conference, which was held in Cancun in early September.

The meeting is scheduled to take place from 3.00 p.m. at the Conference Room of the headquarters of the CARICOM Secretariat, Bank of Guyana Building.

The Director General and the Chairman of the Council have been involved in an intensive round of consultations with member governments of the WTO to try and rescue the global trade negotiations which collapsed in Cancun, Mexico last September. This is in keeping with the mandate of the Ministers for the WTO to continue the work on the outstanding issues with a view to convening a meeting of Senior Officials no later than 15 December 2003.

The agenda for Friday’s meeting in Georgetown includes discussions led by Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi, on perspectives on the process of resuming the multilateral trade negotiations and an update on positions emerging from discussions already held. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico will also make a statement on his perspectives. The Director General and the Chairman will be apprised of the Caribbean vision for the resumption and the session will end with be an exchange of views.

Welcome remarks will be delivered by the Hon. Clement Rohee, Minister of Foreign Trade and International Co-operation of Guyana who is also the lead Caribbean Ministerial spokesman for WTO negotiations.

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