| Invitation to the Policy Research Conference on Trade |
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| Written by Secretariat, APRN |
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Asia-Pacific Research Network Invites you to a Policy-Research Conference on Trade July 11-13, 2005 Hong Kong , SAR Hosted by: Asia Monitor Resource Center, Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants, Documentation for Action Groups in Asia This research-policy conference seeks to comprehensively address the issue of trade liberalization. Besides looking into the current course and intricacies of the WTO negotiations towards the 6th Ministerial Meeting in HongKong and its implications on the people, the conference will also look into the inter-linkages of trade with issues such as the bilateral, regional and plurilateral free trade mechanisms, the geopolitics of trade liberalization and economic integration, the relationship of domestic trade and international trade, development and technical aid, debt and other related trade-finance coherence issues. This interlinking of issues is meant to locate the WTO issues in a broader regional and global context of various trade and development issues, and thus provide capacity for national and grassroots-based organizations to link their immediate issues to various national and international trade and related issues. Through this conference, APRN hopes to advance the capacity and interest of CSO's and social movements in Asia to address various trade issues as preparation for and to increase their involvement in advocacy on the various issues related to the coming HK Ministerial. By locating the conference in HongKong, APRN hopes to contribute to the preparations by social movements in HongKong by focusing interest on HongKong SAR and the people's issues. The three-day conference will include inputs from a wide range of international speakers/social movement experts and study workshops the various issues related to WTO and major agreements (AoA, TRIPs, GATS, NAMA), trade-finance coherence, regional and bilateral agreements, and domestic and international trade. For more details, please contact Jaz Buncan at secretariat@aprnet.org or visit www.aprnet.org. Like it? Share it!
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