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1997 Economic and Trade Calendar

A listing of events related to world economic and trade activities.

February 10-12

OECD Bribery Working Group, Paris.

February 15

Deadline for Concluding WTO Negotiations on Telecom.

February 27-28

OECD Committee on Information, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP), Paris

March 6-7

Fourteen-member Indian Ocean Rim (IOR) Ministerial Summit, Port Louis, The Charter establishing the Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC) will be signed

March 17-19

Annual Meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank, Barcelona

April 5-6

APEC Finance Ministerial, Manila

April 8-10

32nd World Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai. This year's theme is "Asia in the Global Economy."

April 14-17

Russian WTO Accession Talks, Geneva

May 11-13

Asian Development Bank Annual Meeting, Fukuoka

May 13-16

Summit of the Americas Trade Ministerial, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

May 28-29

African Development Bank Annual Meeting, Abidjan

June 18-27

International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Council, Geneva

June 20-22

G-7 Economic Summit, Denver.

Jul 6-7

[Tentative] International Conference on Global Information Networks: Promoting Best Use (for the Electronic Market Place), Bonn

September 23-25

IMF and World Bank Group Joint Annual Meetings, Hong Kong

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