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Uzbekistan and Europe: Opportunities and Prospects for Expansion of Economic Partnership

12/12/2009

The International Conference entitled “Uzbekistan and Europe: Opportunities and Prospects for Expansion of Economic Partnership” was held on 1 October this year at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The conference was the logical completion of a series of informational round-tables held during the second half of September in major European financial and economic centres — Vienna, Brussels and Milan. The event was a kind of platform for the discussion of issues related to developing a new vision of…

Interview with Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

04/14/2009

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Q. Dr Supachai, you have a long and impressive career in both the national and international sphere. Which do you consider as being the most challenging? I think that both my national and international careers have been highly challenging in different ways. When I was working for the government in Thailand, we were faced with more immediate challenges: how to engage in agricultural development; how to achieve agricultural price stability; regional integration; and trying to deal with the financial…