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SUNS # 8467 Monday 22 May 2017
 
  Contents  

Trade : Investment Facilitation and links to China's OBOR (PRIV)
(Chakravarthi Raghavan, Geneva)
The stalemate over the agenda at the General Council last week, resolved on 18 May with a compromise of sorts by the statement from the GC Chair, Amb. Xavier Carim of South Africa, has nevertheless brought to the fore many questionable practices of the secretariat and major systemic issues that, if left unresolved, may soon result in causing irreparable damage to the WTO multilateral trading system.

Trade : Investment facilitation cannot now be discussed formally at WTO (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Geneva)
Following strong opposition from India along with several other developing countries to the inclusion of an agenda item on trade and investment facilitation (IF), a resumed General Council meeting on Thursday decided that this issue cannot now be formally discussed at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

Climate : Parties agree on further work on Paris Agreement rules after tussle (PRIV)
(T. Ajit and Meena Raman, Bonn)
The UNFCCC's Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA) ended its work on 18 May, after lengthy deliberations and four versions of the draft conclusions which finally got adopted late evening at 9.30 pm.


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