UNCTAD XI Preparations

The conference is UNCTAD´s highest decision-making body. It meets every four years to set priorities and guidelines for the organization, and provides an opportunity to debate key economic and development issues. 

This year's conference will be held in Sao Paolo, Brazil from 13-18 June 2004 and will revolve around the following theme: "Enhancing the coherence between national development strategies and global economic processes towards economic growth and development, particularly of developing countries".

 

UNCTAD XI - The Documents

• Preliminary Programme of Events     (black & white version)
• UNCTAD XI Draft Negotiating Text

• "Civil Society, Corporate Globalisation and the role of UNCTAD" - Final Draft of the CSO Statement (English Version)     (Other versions :  french - spanish - portuguese)

 

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR UNCTAD XI - 23 April 2004

Civil Society and Private Sector Hearing
Geneva, Palais des Nations.

Henri Rouillé d'Orfeuil Président de Coordination SUD

Statement of Friends of the Earth

 

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR UNCTAD XI - 23 February 2004

Civil Society and Private Sector Hearing
Geneva, Palais des Nations.

Presentation of Mr. Jorge Eduardo S. Durão Brazilian Association of NGOs (ABONG)	Statement of Antoine BRAWAND, IUED
Statement of "Bread for All" - Partnership for financial stability and investment	Statement of The World Federation of Trade Unions
"POUR UN NOUVEAU BIG PUSH", statement of Bernard GERBIER, Economics Professor at the University of Grenoble, France	Statement of Hu Deping, Vice President and Secretary General China Society for Promotion of the Guangcai Program
Statement of the International Coalition For Development Action - on behalf of ICDA and K.U.L.U.-Women and Development, Denmark	"Building a Development Friendly and Sustainable World Trading System", By Dr Nagesh Kumar , Director-General, RIS
"LDCs’ Accession to the WTO: Learning from the Cases of Nepal, Cambodia and Vanuatu", by Ratnakar Adhikari and Navin Dahal South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment (SAWTEE), Kathmandu, Nepal	Statement of Ms. Daniela Perez Gavidia, from the Center of Concern, on behalf of the International Gender and Trade Network, CIDSE/CI (International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity and Caritas Internationalis)
Statement of International confederation of free trade unions	Statement of Third World Network
Statement of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)	Focus on the Global South

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR UNCTAD XI - 16 January 2004

Civil Society and Private Sector Hearing
Geneva, Palais des Nations, Room XXVI

• Summary of the Hearing with civil society and the private sector - Geneva, 16 January 2004 (PDF)
  
  
  
  

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR UNCTAD XI - 17-20 November 2003

• UNCTAD XI – PrepCom 17 - 20 November 2003 – Civil Society Statement

 

For additional information regarding UNCTAD XI preparations, please visit the following links :

• UNCTAD XI: General Information
• UNCTAD XI: Official website
• The Roadmap to UNCTAD XI
• Civil Society statement at UNCTAD XI PrepCom
• Pre-Conference Negotiating Text for UNCTAD XI