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WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION (WTO) MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE 2003

Introduction

The Foundation is engaged in global issues like sustainable development, globalisation and its linkages including issues of WTO.

The WTO Ministerial Conference was held in Cancun, Mexico from September 10th - 14th, 2003. There was a lot at stake for developing countries, and African countries in particular, and the Ministerial was crucial for the future of the multilateral trade system. As a result countries like Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania prepared themselves to participate with their position papers.

HBF together with other civil society organisations in the region felt the need to strategise and define their roles as well as having common advocacy positions and collective work towards Cancun. HBF was involved in various initiatives at country and regional levels in preparation for Cancun with the main objective being to facilitate an exchange of information in order to ensure that the civil society organisations involved in the work on WTO were well informed. Towards this end, several preparatory activities towards Cancun went on.

Under the slogan Don't Trade Away our Future – No Commercien Nuestro Futuro, the Heinrich Böll Stiftung and its regional offices worldwide had a wider program of activities in Cancun. Many of these events took place at the Boell Forum, a large meeting space in downtown Cancun at the Best Western Hotel, Plaza Caribe, Tulum 13, open to all interested (and accessible without WTO-accreditation). For more details visit our Cancun Website.

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