Review session on Chapter III of the Monterrey Consensus
"International trade as an engine for development"
19-20 May 2008, UN Headquarters
Background Documents and Other Inputs
- World Trade Organization on Meeting on Financing for Development, New York, 19th-20th May 2008
- OECD Submission on Review Session on "International trade as an engine for development"
- The European Union preliminary views on "International trade as an engine for development"
- Points of interest to the Rio Group member countries in the context of the consultations on chapter III of the Monterrey Consensus: "International trade as an engine for development"
- U.S. Government Submission on "International Trade as an Engine of Growth for Development"
- Proposal of the Rio Group concerning chapter III of the Monterrey Consensus: "Staying Engaged"
Panelists
(including links to available presentations)
- Ms. Lakshmi Puri, Acting Deputy Secretary-General and Director, Division on International Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities, UNCTAD
- Mr. Martin Khor, Director, Third World Network
- Mr. Kym Anderson, George Gollin Professor of Economics, University of Adelaide, Australia
- Mr. Peter Thompson, Director for Trade and Development, European Commission
- Mr. Hamidur Rashid, Director-General for Multilateral Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh
Statements
Statements by Member States during the interactive debate
- Statement on behalf of the Group of 77 and China by Ambassador Byron Blake, Permanent Mission of Antigua and Barbuda to the United Nations
- Statement on behalf of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) by Her Excellency Ismat Jahan Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations
- Statement by Ambassador Claude Heller Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations on behalf of the Rio Group
- Statement by Ambassador Eduardo Gálvez of Chile, Coordinator of the Rio Group's Working Group on Financing for Development
- Statement on behalf of the European Union by Mr. Peter Thompson, Director for Development and EPAs, Directorate-General for Trade European Commission
- Intervention by Norway
- CANZ talking points
- Statement on behalf of the Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) at the United Nation
- Comments of the Government of Japan
Inputs by Civil Society