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CoE/Committee of Ministers
Foreign Affairs Ministers of the Council of Europe’s 47 member states will hold their annual session by videoconference on Friday 21 May 2021. Chaired from Hamburg by
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, the meeting will provide an opportunity for ministers to take important decisions on the strategy of the organisation in the coming four years and on activities in areas such as
human rights and artificial intelligence, social rights, trafficking in human beings or the protection of the environment.
Other issues on the agenda include the annual report on the State of democracy, human rights and the rule of law by Council of Europe Secretary General, Marija Pejčinović Burić, the organisation’s role in solving conflicts and crises in Europe, securing the long-term effectiveness of European Convention on Human Rights system, including the efficiency of the process for supervising the Court’s judgments, and co-operation with the European Union.
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The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, indicated today that the negotiations on an investment facilitation for development agreement launched in the framework of the World Trade Organization (WTO) are a new model of governance for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), since they stress cooperation between investors and host countries, in contrast to traditional agreements that put the emphasis on granting all sorts of rights to investors, without any obligations.
The senior United Nations official was one of the main speakers at the “High-level regional roundtable on the benefits and challenges of a WTO Investment Facilitation Framework for Development for Latin American economies,” organized by the International Trade Centre (ITC), ECLAC, the German Development Institute (DIE, Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik), the WTO, and the World Economic Forum (WEF).
05/06/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 05/06/2021 20:58
Negotiations in the Framework of the WTO are a New Model of Governance for Foreign Direct Investment: Alicia Bárcena
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, indicated today that the negotiations on an investment facilitation for development agreement launched in the framework of the World Trade Organization (WTO) are a new model of governance for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), since they stress cooperation between investors and host countries, in contrast to traditional agreements that put the emphasis on granting all sorts of rights to investors, without any obligations.