IISD Report on WTO

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• From: Nelson Wong <nelson@MTC.COM.MY>
• Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:14:24 -0400
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To members of the Forest List,

The Internetional Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Canada,
has release an independent assessment of the World Trade Organisation
and Sustainable Development:

http://iisd1.iisd.ca/about/announce/960911a.htm

'The WTO Assessment is an in-depth progress report. "Since sustainable
development is a cross-cutting issue affecting all the work of the WTO,
this report examines not only the work of the WTO Committee on Trade &
the Environment, but that of the other WTO Councils & Committees," said
David Runnalls, Director of the Trade Program at IISD. "We conclude that
the WTO has failed to integrate sustainable development concerns into
trade policies, that the organization still conducts its business behind
closed doors, and has been slow to develop relations with other
organizations essential for its success." - quote from text.

(WTO should also work on developing relations with ITTO, in my opinion)

Regards.


Nelson Wong
MTC
http://www.mtc.com.my

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