Alliance of Small Island States Workshop on Trade, Sustainable Development and Small Island Developing States
Jamaica, 12 - 15 December, 2001

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• CBTF Projects Now Underway (November 2001)
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• Enhancing Synergies and Mutual Supportiveness of Multilateral Environmental Agreements and the World Trade Organisation
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• Ministerial Declaration:
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• United Nations Conference on Trade (UNCTAD):
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  2. Doha Ministerial Declaration: Preliminary Identification of Possible UNCTAD Assistance, 28 November, 2001
  3. Doha Negotiating Mandates: Decision on Implementation-Related Issues and Concerns: Preliminary Identification of Possible UNCTAD Assistance, 28 November, 2001
  4. Doha Negotiating Mandates: Compilation of Outstanding Implementation Issues Raised by Members: Preliminary Identification of Possible UNCTAD Assistance, 28 November, 2001
  
  
• Outcomes and Recommendations of a Commonwealth Workshop on Trade and Sustainable Development
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For questions relating to the workshop please contact Ms. Desna Solofa of the Samoa Mission at desnams@bigplanet.com, or Mr. Espen Ronneberg at the United Nations in New York at ronneberg@un.org.

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