The World Trade Organization announced Tuesday that its Colombian representative Eduardo Muñoz Gomez will be appointed the new chairman of the Committee of Trade and Environment for the period 2010 to 2011, reported website El Mercurio del Medioambiente.
Muñoz will replacing the committee’s previous chairman Bozkurt Aran, representative of Turkey, taking on duties concerning inter-governmental dialogue on the effect of trade policies on the environment and environmental policies on trade.
A representative of Colombia’s government headquarters, the Casa de Nariño, said “The decision was taken unanimously, and came after a meeting of the WTO General Council, held Monday in Geneva [Switzerland].”
The committee will also be co-ordinating the Doha Program for Development, which will study the effects of the environment on accessibility of trade markets.