Events calendar 2007

This page lists WTO and non-WTO events related to the multilateral trading system. Links to non-WTO websites open in a new window and the WTO takes no responsibility for their content. The list is restricted to those events which are organized by intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) which have been granted observer status to the General Council of the WTO (see List).

WTO members occasionally organize meetings of selected countries at the ministerial level to discuss WTO matters. These are not official WTO events and are not listed on this page.


SEE ALSO:
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> Tentative schedule of meetings for the rest of the year, updated weekly

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Participation in many of the WTO seminars and symposia is limited to representatives of WTO member governments, but the discussion papers and presentations are often made available afterwards, at the discretion of the speakers. Links will be added to this page if papers are made available.

1-3 January Media Professionals to promote independent and pluralistic media
UNESCO — Kuwait city, Kuwait
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20-25 January World Social Forum
Nairobi, Kenya
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22-24 January WTO: Trade Policy Review Body — Chad
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24-28 January World Economic Forum annual meeting
 Davos, Switzerland
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27 January World Economic Forum Doha: Progress Discussion — Webcast
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30-31 January Third Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy
Geneva
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31 January- 2 February WTO: Trade Policy Review Body — Japan
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1-2 February Development Finance: Performance and Institutional Coherence of Multilaterals, workshop organised within the framework of the  Global Forum on Development
 OECD — Berlin, Germany
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5 February Joint WTO-UNEP High-Level Roundtable
Globalization and Environment: Ensuring Coherence between the Trade and Environment Regimes
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5-9 February UNEP, Governing Council/Global Ministerial Forum, twenty-fourth session
Nairobi
  
7-8 February WTO General Council
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9 February Age of Connectivity: Cities, Magnets of Hope
United Nations, New York
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9-10 February G7 finance ministers meet
Essen, Germany
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12-14 February WTO: Trade Policy Review Body — Argentina
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13-15 February Global Forum: Building Science, Technology, and Innovation Capacity for Sustainable Growth and Poverty Reduction
World Bank — Washington DC
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15-16 February Global Forum on Space Economics
OECD — Paris
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16 February Patent Colloquia No. 3: “Flexibilities in the Patent System”
WIPO — Geneva
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22 February High-level parliamentary seminar on International Migration
OECD — Paris
  
26-28 February WTO: Trade Policy Review Body — European Communities
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5-7 March WTO: Trade Policy Review Body — Australia
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8-30 March ILO, Governing Body and its committees
Geneva
  
12 March - 5 April Human Rights Council, fourth session
Geneva
  
19-23 March UNCTAD, Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities, eleventh session
Geneva
  
21-23 March WTO: Trade Policy Review Body — Canada
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28-29 March Information Technology Symposium
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March-April ILO Forum on Decent Work for a Fair Globalization
ILO — Geneva
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2-3 April “Is happiness measurable and what do those measures mean for policy?”
OECD — Italy
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14-15 April

2007 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund
Washington D.C.
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16-27 April United Nations Forum on Forests
New York
  
18-21 April Committee on Agriculture (COAG) (20th Session)
FAO — Rome, Italy
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23 April World Book and Copyright Day
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26-27 April New Perspectives on Financial Globalization
IMF — Washington D.C.
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30 April - 2 May WTO: Trade Policy Review Body — Macao, China
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7-9 May WTO: Trade Policy Review Body — Costa Rica
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9-10 May WTO General Council
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10-12 May G8-UNESCO World Forum on “Education, Research and Innovation: New Partnership for Sustainable Development”
Trieste, Italy
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14-15 May

OECD Forum 2007 — Innovation for Growth and Equity: OECD Agenda for Globalisation
Paris
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14-23 May WHO, World Health Assembly, sixtieth session
Geneva
  
17-18 May Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE). Presentation of the African Economic Outlook 2007.
Bled, Slovenia
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21-24 May Committee on World Food Security (CFS) — 33rd Session
FAO — Rome
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23-24 May Migration and Development Conference
World Bank — Washington, D.C.
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23-25 May WTO: Trade Policy Review Body — India
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23-25 May 11th African Oil and Gas, Trade and Finance Conference and Exhibition
 UNCTAD — Nairobi
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24-25 May World Conference on Intellectual Capital for Communities
World Bank — Paris
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29 May-14 June

96th Session of the International Labour Conference
ILO — Geneva
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4-6 June Workshop on WTO dispute settlement procedures: Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Technical Barriers to Trade and Agriculture
UNCTAD — Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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5-6 June International Forum on African Perspectives: Access to Water and Sanitation
OECD — Paris
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6-8 June G8 Summit
Heiligendamm (Germany)
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11-13 June WTO: Trade Policy Review Body — Central African Republic
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12-13 June The Marshall Plan: Lessons Learned Applicable to the 21st Century, 60th anniversary symposium celebration
Paris
  
13-15 June CReCER — Accounting and Accountability for Regional Economic Growth
World Bank — Mexico
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14-15 June Global Agri-Food Forum 2007, Bioeconomy: fad, myth or reality?
OECD — Mexico
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18-29 June Human Rights Council, fifth session
Geneva
  
20-21 June High-level forum on Medicines for Neglected and Emerging Infectious Diseases: Policy Coherence to Enhance their Availability
OECD — Noordwijk-aan-Zee, The Netherlands
  
25 June Joint UNCTAD/WTO Informal Information Session on Private Standards
Geneva
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25-27 June Higher Education in the 21st Century — Diversity of Missions
OECD — Dublin
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26 June 7th Global Forum on Reinventing Government: Building Trust in Government
Vienna, Austria
  
27-29 June WTO: Trade Policy Review Body — Indonesia
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27-30 June Measuring and Fostering the Progress of Societies, second OECD world forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy
Istanbul, Turkey
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9-11 July First Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD)
OECD — Brussels
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18-20 July WTO: Trade Policy Review Body — Bahrain
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25-26 July WTO General Council
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19-23 August 8th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific
World Bank — Colombo
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20-31 August Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: Poverty Reduction, Reproductive Health and Health Sector Reform
World Bank — Bangkok, Thailand
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2-9 September APEC Leaders Week
Sydney, Australia
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10-12 September Conference on “Multilateralising Regionalism”
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13-14 September Mobilizing Aid for Trade: Focus Latin America and the Caribbean
Lima, Peru
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17-19 September WTO: Trade Policy Review Body — Panama
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19-20 September Mobilizing Aid for Trade: Focus Asia and the Pacific
Manila, Philippines
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25 September Stockholm Pledging Conference for EIF
Stockholm, Sweden
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27-28 September Tenth Annual International Banking Conference: Globalization and Systemic Risk
IMF — Illinois, USA
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1-2 October Mobilizing Aid for Trade: Focus Africa
Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
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2-4 October WTO: Trade Policy Review Body — Gabon/Cameroon
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4-5 October WTO Public Forum 2007: “How Can the WTO Help Harness Globalization?”
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9-10 October WTO General Council
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15-16 October OECD Global Forum on Trade: Trade, Innovation and Growth
Paris, France
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15-16 October Workshop on Transparency
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17-19 October WTO: Trade Policy Review Body — Peru
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19-21 Oct

2007 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund
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22-23 Oct

Global Forum on Governance — Modernising Government: strategies & tools for change
OECD — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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26-28 Oct

Moment of Truth: Toward Sustainable Energy Futures? Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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26 Oct - 2 Nov Second Meeting of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
 FAO — Rome
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5-7 November WTO: Trade Policy Review Body — Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)
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11-15 Nov 20th World Energy Congress “Rome 2007”
Rome, Italy
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19-23 November UNCTAD`s Sixth Inter-regional Debt Management Conference
Geneva
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22-23 November New Developments in International Trade in Services
OECD
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26-28 November WTO: Trade Policy Review Body — Thailand
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3-14 December United Nations Climate Change Conference
Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia
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4-6 December Executive Committee of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (60th Session)
FAO — Geneva 
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4-20 December Conference of International NGOs
UNESCO — Paris
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10-12 December WTO: Trade Policy Review Body — Turkey
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13-14 December Child Labour & Education Seminar
World Bank — Paris
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19-20 December WTO General Council
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