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Terry Stewart, Managing Partner of Stewart and Stewart urges domestic companies, workers and communities that depend on trade remedies to use the WTO’s Director-General selection process; restore neutrality Washington, DC (PRWEB) March 13, 2013 Following a review of the cases filed at the World Trade Organization (WTO) since its inception, an international trade lawyer is urging domestic companies, workers and communities that depend on trade remedies to use the WTO’s Director-General...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A world-class line up of speakers and industry leaders will share their insights and lead energetic discussions on the current state and future promise of air traffic management at World ATM Congress. The event is the only international gathering of the leading Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs) from around the world in a unique forum for collaborative dialogue of key players across the entire global ATM industry. (Logo:...
BOSTON and HONG KONG, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ventac Partners and the Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences (GIBH) today announced the creation of CASiGEN Pharma Ltd. (CASiGEN) to bring new treatments for diabetes and other metabolic disorders to the global market. CASiGEN received a world-wide exclusive license from GIBH that gives it access to new drug candidates addressing unmet medical needs in this field. CASiGEN is currently...
NEW YORK, Dec. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC welcomed the decision by UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova to cut off the international organization's funding of Zayzafuna, a children's magazine filled with anti-Semitic material that is produced and distributed in the Palestinian Authority. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO ) AJC leaders, who have met with Bokova at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, as well as in New York and Washington, contacted...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova will speak at a National Press Club Newsmaker press conference at 9:00 a.m. Friday, December 16, in the Zenger Room of the National Press Building, 529 14th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. (Logo: <font size="2" face="Arial">http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080917/NPCLOGO</font>) Three days after raising of the flag of Palestine in a ceremony at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, the...
DFW one of only 14 airports worldwide, 4 in North America inducted into ACI "Director General's Roll of Excellence" MARRAKECH, Morocco, Nov. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport last night earned global honors for its sustained excellence in customer service. DFW became one of the first 14 airports in the world named to the Airports Council International (ACI) Director General's Roll of Excellence, which recognizes airports that have ranked...
[ Watch the Video ] At a ceremony Thursday in Santiago, Chile the Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alfredo Moreno and ESO’s Director General, Tim de Zeeuw, signed an agreement regarding the European Extremely Large Telescope. This agreement between ESO and the Chilean government includes the donation of land for the telescope, as well as a long-term concession to establish a protected area around it, and support from the Chilean government for the establishment of the E-ELT. The...
Rinderpest is gone! A cattle disease that has caused millions of people to die of starvation for hundreds of centuries has been declared eradicated from the world, according to world animal health body OIE."Today we witness a historical event as rinderpest is the first animal disease ever to be eradicated by humankind," OIE Director General Bernard Vallat said at the organization's annual gathering.The Office International des Epizooties (OIE), the World Organization for Animal...
DUBAI, UAE, April 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Director-General of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), Mr. Suleiman J. Al-Herbish, today announced Dr. Mazen Al-Hajri as the recipient of the 2011 OFID Award for Development. The Award was announced on the sidelines of a series of high-level meetings conducted between the Director-General and H.E. Obaid Humaid Al-Tayer, Minister of State for Financial Affairs of the United Arab Emirates and other government officials,...
The Council of the European Space Agency has appointed a team of Directors who will assist the Director General in the reorganized structure that takes effect on 1 April 2011.The motive for changing the structure of the organization is to make ESA even more competitive and efficient to increase its added value for Member States and third parties.The timing is associated with the start of the third mandate of the Director General, Jean-Jacques Dordain. The Director General wanted the Council...
