WTO Advanced Training Program for Asia-Pacific Set up in China

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WTO Advanced Training Program for Asia-Pacific Set up in China

The WTO Advanced Training Program for the Asia-Pacific was launched Wednesday at Beijing University, one of China's most prominent universities.

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The WTO Advanced Training Program for the Asia-Pacific was launched Wednesday at Beijing University, one of China's most prominent universities.

The program is co-sponsored by China's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC), the WTO Secretariat and the Asia Development Bank.

Shi Guansheng, Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, told the launching ceremony that the establishment of the program marked China's debut in undertaking a regional role among WTO members, as well as the WTO working with regional development banks to provide technical assistance to its developing members.

Multilateral trade negotiation was becoming increasingly complex and technical, Shi said. It was pivotal for developing members to increase their technical capacity in trade negotiationsto protect their legal rights and interests and become involved inthe new international rule-making process.

Setting up the training courses was considered one of the WTO'sstrategies to help build up its developing members' technical capacity for participating in the mutilateral trading system, Raymond Krommenacker, the regional coodinator for Asia and Pacificcountries in the WTO, said at the ceremony.

Twenty-nine senior trade officers from WTO members in the Asia-Pacific region are due to take the courses, studying the maintenance and development of mutilateral trade systems, stimulation of foreign trade and development of a national economy.

Krommenacker said the setting up of the advanced training courses in Beijing was "a positive illustration of the building ofthe strategic partnership and synergies" between the WTO and its developing members.

The first courses on trade policy studies are due to begin in April 2003.

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