Virtual launch of UNCTAD report great success for Vi members in Colombia
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EAFIT University's video conference webcast featuring Colombia's national launch of UNCTAD's Trade and Development Report 2007, linked hundreds of students and professors with Geneva experts to discuss the advantages of a regional approach to trade for Latin American countries.
The video conference, organized by UNCTAD, the Virtual Institute and EAFIT's Vi member coordinator, Sascha Furst, filled an auditorium in Medellín, and counted with 95 viewers from Vi Affiliate member, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogotá. In Geneva, representatives from UNCTAD and Colombia's Permanent mission led the presentation and were at hand to answer questions from students.
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Colombian member EAFIT University, along with Vi’s 10 Colombian affiliate universities, will join Geneva experts and country representatives at the national launch of UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Report 2007. The event will be held via videoconference on November 7.
This year's WIR from UNCTAD focuses on the role of transnational corporations (TNCs) in the extraction of oil, gas, and metal minerals. It emphasises the need for coherent and well-designed host country policies that involve all stakeholders in order to maximize development gains from such industries.
Vi coordinator at the Belarus State Economic University (BSEU), Alena Petrushkevich, attended the first regional course on international investment agreements (IIAs) and investment disputes for transition economies held in Minsk, 16-25 July 2007.
Former Venezuelan trade negotiator Manuela Tortora, now Chief of UNCTAD's Technical Cooperation Service, will address the IV Congress of International Business, sponsored by Vi university member EAFIT (Colombia) on August 16 and 17 in Medellín.
