Seventh Roundtable Meeting for Pacific Island Countries on WTO Multilateral Trading System

Abstract

The Seventh Roundtable Meeting for Pacific Island Countries on the Implications of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Multilateral Trading System on the Agriculture Sector was convened at the Terrace Conference, St John Building, 114 The Terrace in Wellington, New Zealand, from 1-7 July 2004. Senior Officials from the following countries attended: Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. Resource pe rsons and observers from New Zealand, FAO, Commonwealth Secretariat, International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD), Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS), the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) and the Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) also attended the meeting. A list of participants is attached as Annex A.