| WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION: MAI-Relevant Schedule | ||
| 1999 PAST EVENTS (Go to future events) | ||
| Feb 25 | General Council - 3rd Ministerial preparations, phase 2 | |
| March 15-16 | Geneva | High Level Meeting on Trade and Environment |
| March 17-18 | Geneva | High Level Meeting on Trade and Development |
| March 20 | Geneva | Coordination Against the MAI Conference |
| March 24-26 | General Council | |
| April 11 | Sydney | Reclaiming Democracy Summit with Paul Hellyer |
| April 12-13 | WTO Informal Meeting | |
| April 13 | Brisbane | Public Meeting - Paul Hellyer |
| April 14 | Canberra | Public Meeting - Paul Hellyer |
| April 18 | Adelaide | Public Meeting - Paul Hellyer |
| April 21 | Geelong | Public Meeting - Paul Hellyer |
| April 22 | Melbourne | Public Meeting - Paul Hellyer |
| April 22-23 | WTO General Council - Competition policy and investment | |
May 1 |
Canberra | Closing
date for citizens' submissions to DFaT. Emails to Mr
Steve Moran, trade.consult@dfat.gov.au Web http://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/negotiations/consult/index.html |
| May 3-4 | WTO Informal Meeting | |
| May 10 | Berlin | EU trade ministers meet to discuss the Millennium Round |
| May 13 | EU needs to adapt to WTO's beef-hormone ruling | |
| May ? | EU-US Summit (Clinton, Santer and Schroeder meet to discuss the Transatlantic Economic Partnership and the new WTO round) | |
| May 20-21 | WTO General Council Special Session | |
| May 22 to June 22 |
Europe | Intercontinental Caravan (ICC) -
500 activists touring Europe to promote action against
globalisation and TNCs See http://stad.dsl.nl/~caravan |
| May 29 | Cologne | European
Marches demonstration against unemployment, social
exclusion and racism Contact email: koeln99@gmx.net |
| June 7-8 | WTO Informal Meeting | |
| June 16 | Cologne | Meeting, Committee Resistance against MAI |
| [JUNE 18 | Worldwide | PROPOSED GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION by
NGOs] website: http://www.gn.apc.org/june18 |
| June 18 | Cologne | Large demonstration against G-8 Summit (including human chain by Jubilee 2000) |
| June 19 | Cologne | People's Countersummit alongside G8 Summit |
| June 21-22 | WTO Special GENERAL COUNCIL (3rd Ministerial Conf) -- The new Multilateral Round (? postponed) | |
| June 24-26 | Paris | International anti-MAI forum. Contact inter@attac.org. |
| June 26 | PERTH | Public Stop MAI Seminar with Pat Ranald |
| June 28-30 | Montreal | CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY |
| July 7 | WTO GENERAL COUNCIL SPECIAL SESSION preparations for 3rd Ministerial Meeting. |
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| July 7-8 | COMMITTEE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT; COMMITTEE ON SANITARY AND PHYTOSANITARY MEASURES; COUNCIL FOR TRIPs | |
| July 23-24 | Singapore | 32nd ASEAN Ministerial Meeting |
| July 26 | BRISBANE | StopMAI (Qld) coordinators' mtg. Contact Richard Sanders |
| Jul 29-31 | New York | UNITED NATIONS FIRST GLOBAL FORUM ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT |
| Aug 3 | Melbourne | Victorian Coordinators Meeting at Ground Floor, Ross House, 247 Flinders Lane, Melbourne. Contact Serena O'Meley |
| Aug | WTO has its annual recess in August (No meetings) | |
| Aug 16 | New Delhi | CONSULTATION ON INDIA AND THE WTO: THE ROAD TO SEATTLE. |
| Aug 23-26 | Bangalore | Peoples Global Action (PGA)
Conference in Bangalore, India. Strategy discussion
against the WTO. Contact: pga@agp.org |
| Sep 15 | Worldwide | INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST WTO |
| Sep 24 | London | DUE PROCESS IN WTO DISPUTE SETTLEMENT. 3rd Annual World Trade Law Association Conference |
| Sept | ?? WTO Proposals finalised for 3rd Ministerial | |
| Oct 11-13 | Bad Honnef, Germany | SECOND MEETING OF DEBATE 21 - an international NGO dialogue project |
| Oct 25-26 | Geneva | THE COMING WTO NEGOTIATIONS: PERSPECTIVES AND BENEFITS FOR THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY. Organised by the Foreign TradeAssociation. |
| Nov 30 | Worldwide | Proposed International Day of Action |
| Nov 30-Dec 3 | Seattle | WTO Third Ministerial, incl Forest Products Agreement |
| Nov 29-Dec 3 | Seattle | Global Peoples' Protest by the
Puget and other counter events planned by Citizen's Trade
Campaign, Peoples' Global Action, IFG, etc Updates on the Public Citizen webpage: http://www.citizen.org/pctrade/gattwto/seattle/seattle.html News and follow-up reports |
| Jan 2000 | Proposed
"Millennium Round" on Investment |