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NEW DELHI, June 20

IN the run-up to the Fifth Ministerial Conference to be held in Cancun, Mexico in September 2003, the WTO Director-General, Dr Supachai Pantichpakdi, has announced the formation of a Consultative Board of eminent persons in Geneva.

According to a WTO statement, the board is to be chaired by the former WTO-GATT Director-General, Mr Peter Sutherland, who will advise the WTO on the challenges and opportunities confronting the organisation and the multilateral trading system.

The Consultative Board will be tasked to prepare a report on how to institutionally bolster and equip the WTO to respond effectively to future systemic challenges brought about by an increasingly integrated global economy.

Dr Supachai has asked his Board, as well, to reflect on how to improve the functioning of the organisation as it expands to near universal membership, the role of the Secretariat and its resources and ways to foster more effective partnerships with other international organisations and greater public outreach.

Besides Mr Sutherland, the board will have as members Prof Jagdish Bhagwati of Columbia University, Dr Kwesi Botchwey, Director, Africa Programmes and Research, Harvard Centre for International Development, Mr Niall W.A. Fitzgerald, co-Chairman and CEO, Unilever, Prof Koichi Hamada, Professor of Economics, Yale University, Prof John Jackson of Georgetown University, Prof Celso Lafer of University of Sao Paulo, and Prof Thierry de Montbrial, founder and President of the French Institute for International Relations.

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