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PRESS/207
9 February 2001
(01-0644)
WTO CHAIRPERSONS FOR 2001
The WTO General Council today (9 February) noted the consensus on the following slate of
names of chairpersons for WTO bodies:
General Council Mr. Stuart Harbinson (Hong Kong, China)
Dispute Settlement Body Amb. Roger Farrell (New Zealand)
Trade Policy Review Body Amb.. Pekka Huhtaniemi (Finland)Council for Trade in Goods A mb. Istvan Major (Hungary)
Council for Trade in Services Amb. Celso Amorim (Brazil)
Council for TRIPS Amb. Boniface Guwa Chidyausiku (Zimbabwe)Committee on Trade and Environment Amb. Alejandro Jara Puga (Chile)
Committee on Trade and Development Amb. Nathan Irumba (Uganda)
Committee on Balance-of-Payments Restrict ions Amb. Hernando José Gomez (Colombia)
Committee on Regional Trade Agreements Mme. Laurence Dubois-Destrizais (France)
Committee on Budget, Finance and
  AdministrationAmb. M. Supperamaniam (Malaysia)
Working Group on the Relationship between
  Trade and InvestmentAmb. Oguz Demiralp (Turkey)
Working Group on the Interaction between Trade
  and Competition PolicyProf. Frederic Jenny (France)
Working Group on Transparency in Government
  ProcurementAmb. Ronald Saborío Soto (Costa Rica)
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Committee on Agriculture
Chair
Vice-Chair****************************************
Amb. Apiradi Tantraporn (Thailand)
Mr. Yoichi Suzuki