In her opening remarks to an informal Heads of Delegation meeting on 28 February, Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala underlined the importance of delivering results at the organisation’s 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) which will take place in a year’s time.
WASHINGTON, February 28, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Equity Commission presented its 2023 Interim Report to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today.
At a meeting of the Committee on Agriculture in Special Session — the Committee’s negotiation arm — on 27 February, the recently elected chair, Ambassador Alparslan Acarsoy of Türkiye, said his extensive consultations revealed members’ strong commitment to achieving an outcome with a focus on food security at the 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) slated for February 2024. He highlighted the importance of adopting a new mindset as negotiations resumed and said he planned to convene a series of seminars at end-March to gain a better understanding of the issues under negotiation.
The WTO will hold an in-person training course on trade and gender for government officials from 2 to 5 May 2023 at its headquarters in Geneva. The course aims to help government officials develop trade policies that promote gender equality and integrate gender considerations in their work. It supports the work of the Informal Working Group on Trade and Gender on seeking to increase women’s participation in global trade. The deadline to submit applications is 15 March 2023.
At the World Ocean Summit on 28 February, Deputy Director-General Angela Ellard stressed the need for WTO members to take action to enter into force the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies and to complete the second wave of negotiations aimed at addressing subsidies contributing to overcapacity and overfishing. She spoke on a panel titled “Steering national and international ocean governance to minimize anthropogenic impact on the ocean’s resources” at the summit organized by The Economist in Lisbon, Portugal.
Vendor needs to provide food items supplies to the government authority located in Iowa.
(1) Vendor needs to provide food services to the government authority located in West Deptford, NJ.
– National school lunch program
– School breakfast program
– Community eligibility provision
– Block Scheduling
– After school snack program
– Special milk program
– Vending machines
– Preschool programs in buildings and classrooms
– Extended school year for special education
– Breakfast in the classroom
– Breakfast after the bell
– Organizational chart
– Visitation and coverage by field supervisors and other support personnel
– Designing facilities
– Selecting and procuring food service equipment
– Food and supply procurement
– Nutrition standards and education
(2) All questions must be submitted no later than March 24, 2023
(3) The contract will be one year.
The European Union has contributed EUR 450,000 (just over CHF 445,000) in 2023 to fund the participation of government officials from developing countries and least-developed countries (LDCs) in training and other trade capacity-building activities delivered by the WTO. This contribution to the WTO’s Global Trust Fund will help these countries better understand and implement WTO agreements and enhance their negotiating skills.
The WTO and the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) signed today (27 February) a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen cooperation on enhancing the participation of Francophone countries in the multilateral trading system. The MoU was signed by WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and OIF Secretary-General Louise Mushikiwabo.
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