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Trade and development


TAD/2025
27/06/2005
Press Release
TAD/2025

TROPICAL TIMBER TALKS RESUME IN GENEVA

 


(Reissued as received.)


GENEVA, 27 June (UNCTAD) -- Representatives of countries that produce and consume tropical timber will continue drafting a new international agreement on trade in tropical timber during a third negotiating session from 27 June to 1 July.

TAD/2018
22/4/2005
Press Release
TAD/2018

NEW OLIVE AGREEMENT COMES UP FOR ADOPTION


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GENEVA, 22 April (UNCTAD) -- Member States of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) will meet for five days beginning Monday to consider adoption of a new International Agreement on Olive Oil and Table Olives.

TAD/2017
9/3/2005
Press Release
TAD/2017

UNCTAD, JBIC TO FOSTER JAPANESE INVESTMENT IN EAST AFRICA


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GENEVA, 9 March (UNCTAD) -- The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) have launched a joint African Investment Initiative to encourage greater investment by Japanese companies in Africa with the ultimate aim of encouraging economic growth, it was announced this morning in Geneva.

TAD/2013
25/2/2005
Press Release
TAD/2013

CUBA to HOST TRAINING COURSE ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, 28 FEBRUARY – 16 March

 


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GENEVA, 25 February (UNCTAD) -- Government officials and academics from eight Latin American and Caribbean nations will be trained by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in the use of multidisciplinary approaches to trade and development issues in Havana, Cuba.