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PRESS/273
15 February 2002
(02-0821)
WTO CHAIRPERSONS FOR 2002
The WTO General Council today (15 February) noted the consensus on the following slate of
names of chairpersons for WTO bodies:
Regular bodies (for 2002)
• General Council: Ambassador Sergio Marchi (Canada)
• Dispute Settlement Body:  Ambassador Carlos Pérez del Castillo (Uruguay)
• Trade Policy Review Body:  Ambassador Amina Chawahir Mohamed (Kenya)
• Council for Trade in Goods:  Ambassador M.Supperamaniam (Malaysia)
• Council for Trade in Services:  Ambassador Mary Whelan (Ireland)
• Council for TRIPS:  Ambassador Eduardo Pérez Motta (Mexico)
• Committee on Budget, Finance and Administration:  Mr Neil McMillan (United Kingdom)
• Committee on Balance-of-Payments Restrictions:  Ambassador Anda Cristina Filip (Romania)
• Committee on Trade and Development:  Ambassador Toufiq Ali (Bangladesh)
• Committee on Regional Trade Agreements: Ambassador Boniface Guwa Chidyausiku
(Zimbabwe)
• Committee on Trade and Environment:  Ambassador O ğuz Demiralp (Turkey)
• Working Group on the Relationship between Trade and Investment:  Ambassador Luiz Felipe
de Seixas Corrêa (Brazil)
• Working Group on the Interaction between Trade and Competition Policy:  Professor
Frédéric Jenny (France)
• Working Group on Transparency in Government Procurement:  Ambassador Ronald Saborío
Soto (Costa Rica)
• Working Group on Trade, Debt and Finance:  Ambassador Hernando José Gómez (Colombia)
• Working Group on Trade and Transfer of Technology:  Ambassador Stefán Haukur
Jóhanesson (Iceland)
• Committee on Agriculture:  Dr Magdi Farahat (Egypt)PRESS/273
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Bodies established by the Trade Negotiations Committee (until Fifth Ministerial Conference)
• Council for Trade in Services, Special Session:  Ambassador Alejandro Jara (Chile)
• Negotiating Group on Non-Agricultural Market Access:  Ambassador Pierre-Louis Girard
(Switzerland)
• Negotiating Group on Rules:  Ambassador Timothy John Groser (New Zealand)
• Committee on Trade and Environment, Special Session:  Ambassador Yolande Biké (Gabon)
• Council for TRIPS, Special Session:  Ambassador Eui Yong Chung (Rep. of Korea)
• Dispute Settlement Body, Special Session:  Ambassador Pèter Balás (Hungary)
• Committee on Agriculture, Special Session:  Mr Stuart Harbinson (Hong Kong, China)
• Committee on Trade and Development, Special Session:  Ambassador Ransford Smith
(Jamaica)
For more information:
On WTO bodies, see:
http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/tif_e/org2_e.htm
On the Trade Negotiations Committee and the Doha agenda, see:
http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dda_e/dda_e.htm
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