GATT/AIR/2973 19 APRIL 1990

SUBJECT: URUGUAY ROUND: GROUP OF NEGOTIATIONS ON SERVICES

1. THE GROUP OF NEGOTIATIONS ON SERVICES WILL HOLD ITS NEXT MEETING ON 7-11 MAY 1990, STARTING ON MONDAY, 7 MAY 1990 AT 10 A.M. AT THE CENTRE WILLIAM RAPPARD.

2. THE FOLLOWING ITEMS ARE ON THE AGENDA:

2.1 FURTHER WORK, ON THE BASIS OF THE ELEMENTS ASSEMBLED IN DOCUMENT MTN.GNS/28, WITH A VIEW TO COMPLETING NEGOTIATIONS ON ALL PARTS OF THE MULTILATERAL FRAMEWORK ON SERVICES BY THE END OF THE URUGUAY ROUND. THE DISCUSSION AT THIS MEETING WILL FOCUS IN PARTICULAR ON:

I. PARTS I AND II OF MTN.GNS/28 (ALL ASPECTS).

II. STATISTICS.

III. ROLE OF OTHER INTERNATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS AND DISCIPLINES.

IV. INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES (PART IV OF MTN.GNS/28).

V. IDENTIFICATION OF SECTORS REQUIRING ANNOTATIONS AND NATURE OF ANNOTATIONS.

VI. INITIAL PRESENTATION OF KINDS OF PROGRESSIVE LIBERALIZATION UNDERTAKINGS THAT MAY BE PURSUED BY PARTICIPANTS.

THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS ARE OF RELEVANCE FOR THE DISCUSSION: MTN.GNS/28, MTN.TNC/11; SUMMARY RECORDS OF THE GNS MEETINGS IN THE MTN.GNS/- SERIES; SUBMISSIONS BY PARTICIPANTS AND SECRETARIAT PAPERS IN THE MTN.GNS/W/- SERIES.

2.2 OTHER BUSINESS.

3. PARTICIPANTS ARE REQUESTED TO INFORM ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE OF THE NAMES OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVES.

A. DUNKEL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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