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PRESS/121
16 February 1999
WTO chairpersons for 1999
The WTO General Council today (16 February) noted the consensus on the following slate of names of chairpersons for WTO bodies:
| General Council | Ambassador Ali Said Mchumo (Tanzania) |
| Dispute Settlement Body | Ambassador Nobutoshi Akao (Japan) |
| Trade Policy Review Body | Ambassador Jean-Marie Noirfalisse (Belgium) |
| Council for Trade in Goods | Ambassador Roger Farrell (New Zealand) |
| Council for TRIPs | Ambassador Carlos P閞ez del Castillo (Uruguay) |
| Council for Trade in Services | Mr. Stuart Harbinson (Hong Kong, China) |
| Committee on Trade and Environment | Ambassador Istv醤 Major (Hungary) |
| Committee on Trade and Development | Ambassador Absa Claude Diallo (Senegal) |
| Committee on Budget, Finance and Administration | Mme. Laurence Dubois-Destrizais (France) |
| Committee on Balance-of-Payments Restrictions | Mr. Tomasz Jodko (Poland) |
| Committee on Regional Trading Agreements | Ambassador Krirk-Krai Jirapaet (Thailand) |
| Working Group on the Relationship between Trade and Investment | Ambassador Man Soon Chang (Korea) |
| Working Group on the Relationship between Trade and Competition Policy | Prof. Fr閐閞ic Jenny (France) |
| Working Group on Transparency in Government Procurement | Ambassador Ronald Sabor韔 Soto (Costa Rica) |
| Committee on Trade in Agriculture | Ambassador Nestor Osorio Londo駉 (Colombia) |