Manmohan Singh leaves for Geneva

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, AUG. 20. The former Finance Minister and Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Dr. Manmohan Singh, today left for Geneva to attend the first meeting of an advisory panel constituted by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director- General, Mr. Mike Moore, to find ways to make the organisation more responsive to the needs of the member-Governments and their citizens.

Apart from Dr. Manmohan Singh, the 12-member advisory panel includes Dr. Ernesto Zedillo, former President of Mexico, Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati, University Professor at Columbia University, New York, Prof. Robert Baldwin, Hilldale Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin and Dr Peter Eigen, Chairman, Transparency International, Berlin.

The mandate of the panel is to examine how the fullest possible participation of each member-Government could be ensured as the WTO expands to `near universal' membership. The panel has also been asked to examine ways of creating a more effective partnership between the WTO and the civil society.

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