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Sri Lankan to head key committee in the WTO
The appointment of Sri Lanka's Permanent Representative to the WTO, Ambassador Gomi Senadhira, to head this Committee was approved by the General Council of the WTO, during its last session. Ambassador Senadhira had taken over the chairmanship of the Committee from end of February. In the Committee on Trade and Development, WTO members consider broad issues relating to the trade of developing countries. The Committee also serves as a focal point for technical cooperation activities carried out by the WTO as well as coordination of trade related technical assistance in some other multilateral agencies. Since the Doha Ministerial Conference, in November 2001, the Committee has been mandated to study the specific challenges faced by the small economies in their participation in world trade and make recommendations to the Ministerial Conferences, through the General Council, as to what trade-related measures could improve the integration of small economies in to the global trade. For this purpose the committee will hold special dedicated sessions. The membership of the Committee on Trade and Development comprises all countries which are Members of the WTO which currently stand at 148. In addition to the members, most of the developing country observers of the WTO, which numbers over thirty, also participate in the CTD meetings. Prior to his appointment as the Ambassador to the WTO, in January 2004, Mr. Senadhira was based in Brussels as Sri Lanka's trade representative to the European Communities. During his assignment in Brussels, he coordinated the Sri Lanka - European Commission joint study on bilateral trade and played a key role in obtaining tariff concessions for Sri Lanka, based on labour standards. |
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