Trade & Investment Task Force Presents Recommendations for June G20 Meeting Agenda
Businessmen from the B20 Trade and Investment Task Force, together with Jose Angel Gurria of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and Pascal Lamy, Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), held a meeting with the Trade Ministers of the G20, where they presented a working paper and recommendations, according to the G20. During the ministerial meeting, led by the Mexican Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, the businessmen highlighted the role played by trade and investment as promoters of development, economic growth and employment.
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The document presents six recommendations, to be analyzed and evaluated by the Ministers in order to prepare an agenda for discussion prior to and during the June 2012 G20 Summit in Mexico, including that: (1) the G20 must support the advancement of specific issues on the WTO agenda by order of priority; (2) the G20 should create a Task Force focused on investment to advance this agenda and report their results at the 2013 Russian Summit; etc.
G20 press release (dated 04/19/12) available here.