Interview with Ambassador John Clarke on the EU and New Zealand Free Trade Agreement
Watch my interview with Ambassador John Clarke, European Commission Director of International Affairs/Trade Negotiations in the EU Agriculture Directorate-General
EU Signs Free Trade Agreement with New Zealand
Watch my interview with Ambassador John Clarke, Director of International Affairs/Trade Negotiations, European Commission Directorate-General for Agriculture, and former EU mission head to the WTO and the UN and its agencies in Geneva. Ambassador Clarke is an Uruguay Round veteran.
He was the lead negotiator of the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and New Zealand. We spoke about agriculture (what is in, what is out), the very important provision of sustainability in the agreement, and what does this FTA means for future free trade agreements in other regions and for Mercosur.
UN Human Rights Commission
The Committee Against Torture opened this week in Geneva, it will take place from 10 to 28 July, during which it will evaluate the efforts of Switzerland, New Zealand, Romania and Spain and review progress on the implementation of the rule-of-law according to the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Pr…