The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and United Nations Offices in Geneva, presented his credentials to the WTO Director General Pascal Lamy at his office on Tuesday. During the meeting, Dr Debapriya apprised the WTO Director General about the current concerns of Bangladesh relating to marginalisation of the LDCs interest in the Doha Development Round.

He emphasized the need to have commercially meaningful duty-free quota-free market access for LDC exports, operationalisation of LDC modalities for movement of natural persons, ensure food security and protection of special products during agricultural liberalization. The need to have more high quality trade-related foreign aid to alleviate production bottlenecks also came up for discussion.