Declaring the creation of an Arab center for building multilateral trade negotiation capacities, was the focus of a meeting that convened last Thursday and which included heads and representatives of the permanent Arab missions to the UN, the representative of the League of Arab Nations and the special counselor of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
During the meeting, Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, chairman of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh & Co. International (TAGI), explained the role of the Arab center and its goals in developing the contribution of Arab states in the multilateral trade system, with special focus on the WTO. The chairman of the Center for Applied Studies in International Negotiation (CASIN), presented a summary of the training programs that will be offered in the Arabic language on trade and its negotiations, which aim to enrich the knowledge of executives in the business sector and their understanding of the dynamics and mechanism of the international trade system, in addition to issues relating to the WTO and its systems, laws and agreements.
Abu-Ghazaleh explained that this center will begin its activities through numerous programs, the first of which will be held in Geneva to train the trainers for two weeks and in two phases. After that, the programs will be offered in the Arabic language, as TAGI will choose the best ones that have been offered by CASIN during the past 20 years to governments worldwide, and then will translate these to Arabic.