Davos 2015: Groser to attend top-level trade talks
The ministers' meeting will cover latest developments in the multilateral trading system and prospects for progress this year.
Trade Minister Tim Groser will join Prime Minister John Key at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week.
It will be the first time New Zealand has been represented by such a high-powered ministerial team.
Mr Groser is a regular attender and his appointments will include a meeting of trade ministers to discuss the World Trade Organisation issues. He will then visit Brussels, Paris and Ankara.
The ministers’ meeting will cover developments in the multilateral trading system and prospects for progress ahead of the 10th WTO Ministerial Conference scheduled for December 2015.
“The World Economic Forum is a unique opportunity for New Zealand to engage with some of the world’s top decision-makers on current issues across the economic and political spectrum, and their implications for New Zealand,” Mr Groser says.
In Brussels, Mr Groser will meet incoming European Commissioners to press the case for a NZ-EU free trade agreement.
In Ankara, the Turkish capital, he will have bilateral meetings and in Paris he will make a presentation to a gathering of French agri-business leaders.
Nevil Gibson
Mon, 19 Jan 2015
Mon, 19 Jan 2015
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