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The second in a series since March last year, the three-day meeting will feature the theme of "Strengthening the Weak Link: Agenda for Europe and Japan & East Asia".
Mr Tam will attend the meeting as an invited guest of the organisers. He will actively participate in discussions at various sessions on such topics as "The European Union and the APEC Process", "Further Multilateral Negotiations", "New Framework for Negotiations", and "Contestable Markets and Global Coherence".
Three sessions will be devoted to the third item when experts will initiate discussions on global contestability of national markets and extending the WTO system to investment issues. They will also talk about competition policies and regulatory trade measures, and regulatory reform and trade in services as well as problems for East Asia in the proposed framework.
As Hong Kong's representative, Mr Tam will present the territory's position as a staunch supporter of free trade and a keen advocate of efforts in the multilateral arena towards freeing up the global flow of goods, services and capital.
The meeting will be chaired by Mr Ulf Dinkelspiel, President of the Swedish Trade Council and former Swedish Minister of European Affairs and Foreign Trade. The Deputy Director-General of WTO, Mr Chulsu Kim, will be one of the guest speakers.
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Accuracy of HIV test kit
In response to media enquiries on HIV virus test kit (IMxHIV/HIV2 3rd generation plus kit) produced by the Abbott Laboratories which was found to have produced very small number of inaccurate results, a spokesman for the Department of Health today (Tuesday) said:
"The affected assay IMxHIV/HIV2 3rd Generation Plus had not been used by the Department of Health including its AIDS Unit and Social Hygiene Clinics.
"The Abbott Laboratories had notified all purchasers of the affected assay of the findings.
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