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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04ABUDHABI799 |
UAEG PREPARING FOR UNCTAD XI [...] ECONOFF DELIVERED REF B TALKING POINTS AND NON-PAPER TO UAE MINISTRY OF ECONOMY DIRECTOR OF WTO AFFAIRS SAEED AL- NASIBI ON MARCH 22. AL-NASIBI NOTED THAT MINISTER OF ECONOMY HIS HIGHNESS SHAYKH FAHIM AL-QASSIMI WOULD LEAD THE UAE DELEGATION TO BRAZIL IN JUNE; AL-NASIBI WOULD ACCOMPANY THE M [...] |
2004-03-22 08:04:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD UNCTAD WTO USTR TC |
| 04BRASILIA581 |
BRAZIL ON TRADE ELEMENTS OF UNCTAD DECLARATION [...] (U) Econoff delivered reftel talking points on March 10 to Piragibe Tarrago, Chief of the Economics Department within Brazil's Foreign Ministry, Itamaraty. Tarrago's Department has the lead on trade-related aspects of the UNCTAD declaration; he also reports directly to Ambassador Hugueney, B [...] |
2004-03-11 14:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD BR UNCTAD WTO |
| 04GUATEMALA1765 |
TAX COLLECTIONS EXCEED TARGETS THANKS TO PROGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Tax collections are above target through June, despite delays in the fiscal reform. The good news comes as a result of much better collections by Customs of duties and value added tax in the ports, the result of a shifting focus from physical inspection of containers to ensu [...] |
2004-07-16 18:37:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD GT UNCTAD WTRO |
| 04GUATEMALA717 |
ENGAGING TRADE MINISTERS IN UNCTAD XI [...] (SBU) Summary: UNCTAD is a traditional preserve of the MFA, which is prone to G-77 views and rhetoric. The new Vice Minister of Trade understands our concerns and plans to work with the pro-trade Minister of Foreign Affairs to align Guatemala's positions in UNCTAD with its Cairns Group agen [...] |
2004-03-23 14:23:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD GT UNCTAD WTRO |
| 04MANAMA326 |
DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNCTAD XI: MANAGING THE TRADE [...] No summary [...] |
2004-03-10 11:15:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD UNCTAD WTO |
| 04MANAMA381 |
DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNCTAD XI: MANAGING THE TRADE [...] No summary [...] |
2004-03-21 09:45:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD UNCTAD WTO |
| 04ROME2463 |
"UNTIED FOOD AID" - WFP STUDY FOR UNCTAD [...] (SBU) The WFP Secretariat has shared with the US Mission a paper prepared for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) entitled: "Food Aid and the Untying of Aid: Opportunities and Challenges for the Least Developed Countries." The key premise for the untying of food aid [...] |
2004-06-24 15:29:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EAGR AORC PREF ETRD WFP UN UNCTAD |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA704 |
HONDURAN VIEW ON UNCTAD IX [...] EconOffs delivered reftel talking points to Melvin Redondo, Director of Trade Policy and Honduras' Chief Negotiator for trade agreements, on March 17. While Redondo was initially unaware of the draft UNCTAD document, he quickly appreciated its importance, and expressed agreement that a re-in [...] |
2004-03-24 18:07:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PREL HO UNCTAD WTO |
| 04THEHAGUE604 |
UNCTAD XI: NETHERLANDS POSITION [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Economic Affairs responded to demarche requested ref a by noting that the Netherlands attaches considerable importance to UNCTAD XI and hopes that It will exert a positive influence on the Doha Round negotiations. Although the Dutch do not want UNCTAD XI to interfere in [...] |
2004-03-11 16:24:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD NL UNCTAD WTRO EUN |
| 07BRASILIA2263 |
UNCTAD SEEKS MORE ACTIVE ROLE WITH BIOFUELS: CONFERENCE ON [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND IS NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. UNCTAD, together with the Government of Brazil (GoB), held a conference on biofuels in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on December 4-5 as a pre-event to the twelfth session of the United Nations [...] |
2007-12-12 14:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TRGY UN UNCTAD KGHG ECON SENV ENRG KSCA BR |
| 08GENEVA1032 |
UNCTAD: Corporate Social Responsibility Workshop on [...] SUMMARY: The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) held a Workshop on the Policy Context for Responsible Investment on November 7, 2008, where the investment community and policy-makers, representing about 50 countries, discussed ways to collaborate on socially responsible investment. [...] |
2008-11-24 12:39:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | UNCTAD ECON ETRD |
| 08GENEVA1043 |
Organic Agriculture: International Task Force Facilitating [...] SUMMARY: The International Task Force on Harmonization and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture (ITF), which was a successful public-private partnership, held its final meeting on October 7, 2008, having completed its five-year project to develop a method for comparing different organic standard [...] |
2008-11-26 16:38:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | UNCTAD ECON ETRD USDA USAID |
| 08GENEVA984 |
UNCTAD - Trade and Development Board, 55th Session, [...] SUMMARY: The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) held the 55th Session of its Trade and Development Board (TDB), UNCTAD's governing body, in Geneva from September 15-26, 2008. IO DAS Gerry Anderson represented the US during the high-level segment of the TDB, September [...] |
2008-11-19 10:03:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD UNCTAD |
| 08STATE112481 |
11TH SESSION OF THE UN COMMISSION ON SCIENCE AND [...] (U) Summary: The UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) held its 11th Session at the Palais des Nations in Geneva from May 26 - 30, 2008. The current biennial themes of the Commission are "Development-oriented policies for a socio-economic inclusive information society, [...] |
2008-10-22 16:39:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPL TINT UNCTAD ECOSOC AORC |
| 09GENEVA1048 |
UNCTAD - Trade and Development Board, 56th Session, [...] (U) Summary. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) held the 56th Session of its Trade and Development Board (TDB), UNCTAD's governing body, in Geneva from September 14-25, 2009. The meeting focused on LDC's, African economic integration, and the impact of the financi [...] |
2009-11-22 11:02:00 | Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNCTAD ECON ETRD XA EAID |
| 09GENEVA233 |
UNCTAD: Investment for Development [...] SUMMARY: UNCTAD experts, numbering approximately 50 member country and 40 field experts, focused on the development dimension of international investment agreements (IIAs) at a recent meeting in Geneva. The experts covered many areas of current debate in the international investment community [...] |
2009-03-18 13:26:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EINV UNCTAD |
| 09GENEVA236 |
UNCTAD COMMODITIES EXPERTS MEETING, APRIL 6-8, GENEVA - [...] This is an action request. See para 11. 2. SUMMARY: After rescheduling twice, UNCTAD finalized dates for the first meeting of its multi-year expert group on commodities and development. The group will meet April 6 and 7 in Geneva, back-to-back with a multi-stakeholders meeting on coffee o [...] |
2009-03-19 07:18:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | UNCTAD ECON ETRD AGR |
| 09GENEVA237 |
UNCTAD - Vietnam Investment Policy Review and Latin [...] Summary: On the margins of UNCTAD's first multi-year expert meeting on investment for development (reftel), UNCTAD showcased two pillars of its work: technical assistance through an Investment Policy Review (IPR) of Vietnam; and consensus building through an Ad-Hoc experts meeting on the Feasi [...] |
2009-03-19 17:01:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | UNCTAD ECON EINV EFIN |
| 09GENEVA262 |
UNCTAD INVESTMENT DATABASES - MONITORING TRENDS GLOBALLY IN [...] Summary: The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) includes a 90 person division devoted to research on direct foreign investment and the operations of transnational corporations (TNC). The Division's annual flagship report, the World Investment Report, is one of the most [...] |
2009-03-30 06:00:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON UNCTAD |
| 09GENEVA282 |
Insurance in Africa-Unmet Needs [...] Summary: In an UNCTAD Ad-Hoc Expert Meeting on Capacity-Building in the Insurance Sector in Africa, experts discussed various types of insurance (health, life, accident, catastrophe, political risk, property insurance, and reinsurance) and five project proposals from UNCTAD and the African Insu [...] |
2009-04-06 12:51:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EFIN UNCTAD |
| 09GENEVA29 |
UNCTAD - Trade and Development Board, 55th Session, [...] Begin Summary. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) held the 55th Session of its Trade and Development Board (TDB), UNCTAD's governing body, in Geneva from September 15-26, 2008. IO DAS Gerry Anderson represented the US during the high-level segment of the TDB, Septem [...] |
2009-01-14 11:56:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | UNCTAD ECON ETRD |
| 09GENEVA350 |
UNCTAD Commodities and Development Meeting and Actions [...] This is an Action request, see para 12. 2. SUMMARY: At UNCTAD's Multi-Year Expert Meeting on Commodities and Development on April 6-7, expert discussion focused on the need for regulation of commodity markets and the need to address the problem of speculation, which was considered to be a [...] |
2009-05-06 14:55:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN UNCTAD |
| 09GENEVA363 |
Accounting: a key development challenge [...] SUMMARY: The Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting (ISAR) builds developing countries' capacities to keep accounts (book keeping) and comply with internationally accepted accounting standards. ISAR has produced useful simplified acc [...] |
2009-05-11 16:37:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID EINV EFIN UNCTAD |
| 09GENEVA377 |
UNCTAD SECGEN RACE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Cote d'Ivoire Perm Rep Gauze is bidding to replace current UNCTAD Secretary General Supachai, whose first term ends this summer, but the challenge is unlikely to meet with much success absent Africa Group support. END SUMMARY Ambassador declares candidacy ------------------ [...] |
2009-05-15 16:30:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON UNCTAD |
| 09GENEVA543 |
UNCTAD Communication Strategy-Mission assists [...] SUMMARY: In order to help the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) elaborate its first ever communications strategy, on June 16, the Mission hosted a meeting between delegates from 11 key missions, including regional coordinators, and UNCTAD staff. After hearing a presentation on UN [...] |
2009-06-30 16:02:00 | Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON UNCTAD |
| 09GENEVA635 |
UNCTAD Working Party on the Budget [...] SUMMARY: The United Nations Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Working Party met June 8-12 in Geneva to discuss UNCTAD's draft program budget for the 2010-2011 biennium. The budget fascicle was presented along with the results of a survey UNCTAD conducted on the quality of its publi [...] |
2009-07-29 13:59:00 | Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON UNCTAD USTR |
| 09GENEVA643 |
ECOSOC - ONE UN RWANDA WORKING WELL [...] SUMMARY. In a July 15 special session on the One UN Rwanda program, organized by the UN Chief Executive Board (CEB) Interagency Cluster on Trade and Productive Capacity during the Operational Activities Segment of the Economic and Social Council meeting in Geneva, the UN Resident Coordinator f [...] |
2009-07-31 13:42:00 | Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | KUNR UNCTAD XA EAID |
| 09GENEVA672 |
International Trade Center (ITC) Targets [...] (U) SUMMARY: During an August 7 courtesy call with International Trade Center (ITC) Executive Director Patricia Francis, Francis asked Charge Griffiths for USG support for 19 new professional posts for ITC's 2010-2011 biennial budget, which the ACABQ in New York has already reviewed. The ACAB [...] |
2009-08-11 16:06:00 | Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON UNCTAD APECO EAID EINV |
| 09GENEVA674 |
UNCTAD competition program for Africa [...] ACTION REQUEST: If embassies in Africa believe their host countries could benefit from advice on competition policy, please see para 14. 2. SUMMARY: In response to requests from several African countries, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) launched a new Competition Progr [...] |
2009-08-12 14:01:00 | Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ECON UNCTAD UNDP XA COMESA EAC SACU SADC WAEMU |
| 09GENEVA682 |
Burkina Faso Investment Policy Review 2009 [...] SUMMARY: UNCTAD held an Investment Policy Review (IPR) for Burkina Faso on June 23, 2009, attended by about 40 delegates, including a number of LDCs and African delegations. Policy Review Section Chief Chantal Dupasquier recommended that Burkina Faso accelerate legal and fiscal reforms to a [...] |
2009-08-17 12:49:00 | Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON UNCTAD EAID XA |
| 09GENEVA864 |
GOLDSTONE REPORT BACKLASH - SPECIAL SESSION AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Fallout from the Goldstone report and the possibility of a Human Rights Council (HRC) special session on the matter (as early as next week) has led to a hardening of positions by both the Palestinian and the Israeli Missions in Geneva, leaving even less room than before for a cons [...] |
2009-10-09 12:49:00 | Mission Geneva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNCTAD UNHRC |
| 09GENEVA888 |
ASYCUDA customs software: aid catalyst [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is helping countries install the automated customs data software program (ASYCUDA), which the USG has supported in numerous countries, most recently Haiti, Jordan, and Sao Tome and Principe. Mission Officer participated in an U [...] |
2009-10-19 16:42:00 | Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAID UNCTAD |
| 09GENEVA93 |
UNCTAD DEPUTY POSITION - SYG BAN TO CONSULT WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: IN A JANUARY 12 MEETING WITH AMBASSADOR TICHENOR, UNCTAD SECRETARY GENERAL DR. SUPACHAI EXPRESSED HIS CONTINUED STRONG SUPPORT FOR HIS ACTING DEPUTY LAKSHMI PURI (INDIAN) AND FRUSTRATION THAT SYG BAN KI MOON HAS NOT YET APPOINTED HER TO THE POSITION. SUPACHAI SAID SYG BAN WAS WA [...] |
2009-02-03 10:28:00 | US Mission Geneva | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON ETRD UNCTAD |
| 09GENEVA997 |
UNCTAD 47th Executive Session of the Trade and Development [...] SUMMARY. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Trade and Development Board (TDB) held its 47th Executive Session on June 30, 2009. The focus of the conference was food insecurity in Africa as an obstacle to development. The TDB approved several reports - the Report of [...] |
2009-11-09 07:22:00 | Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID ETRD EAGR UNCTAD |
| 09STATE50206 |
COTE D'IVOIRE NOMINATES CANDIDATE FOR UNCTAD [...] (U) Reftel contained a dipnote regarding the nomination by the Government of the Cote d'Ivoire of Ambassador Guy Alain Gauze, that Government's representative in Geneva, for Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The Department appreciates post's [...] |
2009-05-15 20:27:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNCTAD IV |
| 10GENEVA152 |
BRAZIL CRITICIZES CHINA OVER "LAND GRABS" IN AFRICA [...] (SBU) Summary: At an UNCTAD meeting on investment in agriculture on February 3, China became the central focus of criticism amid a chorus of concerns about the economic, food security, environmental and social impact of large foreign purchases of agricultural lands in developing co [...] |
2010-02-26 16:21:00 | Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNCTAD ECON |