WTO MOCK SUMMIT AND RESEARCH GROUP
AND
FACULTY OF SOCIAL AND MANAGEMENT
SCIENCES STUDENTS ASSOCIATION (FOSAMSSA) BAYERO UNIVERSITY, KANO – NIGERIA
PROGRAMME OF WTO MOCK SUMMIT
NOVEMBER 2015
THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL TRADE: THE
ROLE OF WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION (WTO)
M.M. YUSIF
DIRECTOR OF THE MOCK SUMMIT
WTO MOCK SUMMIT 2015
THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL TRADE: THE
ROLE OF WTO
The WTO regime of multilateral trading system
emerged from deep crisis of the GATT System and the big power interests to
control the global trade environment.
The victory of Washington consensus group which
comprised of big multinational corporations and other private interests, in the
Uruguay Round of trade negotiations created the World Trade Organization with a
commitment by the major powers to fortify and protect the environment of global
trade under the WTO regime.
It became logical when the regime was immediately
dominated by the major players in global trade and promoted undemocracy and
unfairness in the global trading system.
Thus, within few years crisis begins to surface to
the extent that now there is a deadlock indicating whether the regime will
survive or it too will have to give way to another.
These problems explain first the developing
countries hard experience in WTO system and secondly series of conflicts
between the major actors in the trading regime
The WTO mock summit 2015, in order to mark the 20th
anniversary of the World Trade Organization and the 11th Round of
the mock summit has deliberately resolved to deliberate on the future of
multilateral trading system under the WTO regime.
The objective is to come out with perspectives which
would help us to understand whether the WTO regime could be reformed or
otherwise. If so what would happen?
Accordingly, there are going to be investigative and
commission reports to be presented at the summit by the chairmen of these
commissions. The issues are deliberately
selected to cover areas that give the WTO trade regime great challenges. These are:
Commission
Reports
1.
The WTO at 20 by
the Director General by Johnson Isaac Wisdom
2.
Challenges
facing the global trading system by the Chairman Lawal Abdulmutalab
3.
The Doha
negotiations: the future of multilateral trading system by Lurwanu Khalifa
4.
Developing
countries in the WTO: what hopes for their future in the multilateral trading
system by Mohammed Dahiru Musa
5.
Emerging powers
(China; India; Brazil; South Africa) in the WTO: the challenges for power in
the WTO regime by John Sunday Dominic
6.
China in the
global trading system: conflict brewed, by Seyyid Hassan Ishola
7.
India in the
multilateral trading system: the challenges by Sanusi Isah
8.
The WTO dispute
settlement: the principles, practice and future challenges by Murtala Hassan
9.
Regionalism,
multilateralism and future of multilateral trade by Simon Achin
10. WTO trade policy and international legal development
by Hussaini Hussaini
11. WTO, multilateral trade and special needs of weaker
nations (SDT) by Ahmad Usman
12. The future of the WTO and free trade by Mohammed
Kabir Mohammad
13. The future of the WTO: institutional and political
challenges by Ibrahim Abdullahi Haruna
14. WTO regime, trade, environment and sustainable
development
15. Intellectual property rights and industrialization
of the developing world
16. Central and Eastern Europe’s integration into the
multilateral trading system
Trade delegates are selected to represent their
respective countries on the mock summit.
Each is expected to study the position of his/her country and write a speech
on the country’s view on the future of WTO trade regime, to be delivered on the
floor of the summit. The countries to be
represented are:
|
S/N
|
Country
|
Name
|
Department
|
|
1.
|
United State
of America
|
Umar Faruk
Mohammed
|
Political
Science
|
|
2.
|
European Union
|
Nasiru Aminu
Saidu
|
Political
Science
|
|
3.
|
Japan
|
Ololade Joseph
O.
|
Political
Science
|
|
4.
|
Canada
|
Aliyu Ishak
AAbdul
|
Political
Science
|
|
5.
|
China
|
Abdullahi Bala
Mohammed
|
Political
Science
|
|
6.
|
India
|
Joy Iyere
|
Political
Science
|
|
7.
|
Brazil
|
Ameen Taofiq
|
Political
Science
|
|
8.
|
South Africa
|
Nura T. Jibrin
A.
|
Political
Science
|
|
9.
|
Australia
|
Abdussalam M.K
|
Political
Science
|
|
10.
|
New Zealand
|
Godwin Izor
|
Political
Science
|
|
11.
|
Cuba
|
Adamu Salihu
|
Political
Science
|
|
12.
|
Russia
|
Tijjani Adamu
|
Political
Science
|
|
13.
|
Venezuela
|
Abdul E. Isah
|
Economics
|
|
14.
|
Mexico
|
Angela Bello
|
Political
Science
|
|
15.
|
Peru
|
Auwal Mambalo
Musa
|
Political
Science
|
|
16.
|
Paraguay
|
Abdullahi
Jibril Waya
|
Political
Science
|
|
17.
|
Bolivia
|
Mujibullahi
Mohammed
|
Agric Science
|
|
18.
|
Thailand
|
Shuaibu Garba
S.
|
North West
University
|
|
19.
|
South Korea
|
Khalid Iliyasu
Dauda
|
North West
University
|
|
20.
|
Malaysia
|
Khadijat
Owolabi
|
Sociology
|
|
21.
|
Singapore
|
Fauziya Ahmad
Ade
|
Mass Com
|
|
22.
|
Nigeria
|
Idris Ahmad
Gusau
|
Political
Science
|
|
23.
|
Kenya
|
Abubakar Musa
D/Z
|
Political Science
|
|
24.
|
Ghana
|
Bilkisu
Muhammad
|
Business Admin
|
|
25.
|
Zimbabwe
|
Shafiu
Mohammed
|
Political
Science
|
|
26.
|
Mauritius
|
Habeebatu
Shitu
|
Library
Science
|
|
27.
|
Egypt
|
Abubakar Sadiq
|
Business Admin
|
|
28.
|
Observer (IMF)
|
Endurance
Shuaibu
|
Business Admin
|
|
29.
|
Observer (WB)
|
Salamatu
Ibrahim
|
Political
Science
|
|
30.
|
Observer
(World Trade Union)
|
Kishimi Ishak
Jibril
|
Political
Science
|
|
31.
|
Hong Kong
|
Benjamin
Bossey
|
Mechanical
Engineering
|
|
32.
|
Indonesia
|
Mohammed
Maikano
|
Accounting
|
|
33.
|
Morocco
|
Nura Mohammed
|
Accounting
|
|
34.
|
Argentina
|
Bilal Tijjani
Paki
|
Economics
|
|
35.
|
Swaziland
|
Maryam
Abdulrashid A.
|
Political
Science
|
The Summit 2015 coincided with WTO at 20. It remains in line with the prevailing crisis
in the organization. Since Doha 2001
when trade and development controversy between the developing and developed
country members of the trade body came on the table, the way out has been what
is called Doha Development Agenda (DDA) to be negotiated which indeed implies
the renegotiation and review of the Uruguay Round Agreement which formed the
WTO.
From the Doha Round through the next three in 2003,
2005 and 2007 the Ministerial Summits virtually ended in crisis and since then
there has not been any full Round of negotiations, except series of
consultative meetings to resolve some issues on multilateral trade relations or
see whether the deadlock in the great organization could be broken.
The WTO Mock Summit 2015 by students of Bayero
University, Kano is also a consultative meeting on the future of global trade
under WTO regime. The countries invited
to send trade delegates are carefully selected to represent certain interest in
the multilateral trading system.
The WTO Mock Summit week in November 2015 has other
sessions both on scholarly discourse about the future of WTO and other
activities to energise young students on their academic pursuits and future
leadership capacity. These include:
1.
There is going
to be presentation of research work on the future of global trade under WTO
regime by undergraduate students in the Department of Political Science.
2.
There is
inter-university debate to be hosted by WTO Mock Summit and research group and
FOSAMSSA here in Bayero University, Kano.
The topic of the debate is: “The Future of WTO: Reform or Collapse”.
3.
There is Quiz
competition to introduce young ones to challenges facing multilateral trading
system and basic issues about the WTO.
4.
A public lecture
will also hold during the week of activities by the WTO Mock Summit and
Research Group in partnership with FOSAMSSA.
The subject of the lecture would be on Nigeria’s place in the global
trade system. The title is “Nigeria in
the Multilateral Trading System: Problems and Prospects”
5.
There is
inter-university soccer competition in which five other universities are
invited to come and join WTO Mock Summit team for the game. A Table tennis competition for lady students
in Bayero University, Kano is being planned for implementation.
6.
A theatric
performance in form of drama presentation would be displayed either some
minutes before the summit begins with a view to dramatize a subject of
multilateral trade under WTO regime or the same but with a different schedule
of time and date.
7.
Another in the
package of activities in this academic session would be an e-training to fifty
different students by the Geneva Secretariat of the World Trade Organization on
any trade issue chosen by each of the fifty students selected to go through
this training. This is a result of
cooperation with Federal Ministry of Commerce and Investment which created this
link between “WTO Mock Summit and Research Group” with WTO secretariat in
Geneva. We are also planning a joint
National or International Conference to hold in Nigeria.
8.
Finally, a
discussion programme with Express Radio was already held on August, 1 2015 to
project the WTO Mock Summit 2015.
Members of the
Organizing Committee
1.
Lawal A.
Abdulmuthalib Chairman
2.
John Isaac
Wisdom Director
General
3.
John Sunday
Dominic Director ICT’s and Planning
4.
Mohammed Musa
Dahiru Director
Publicity
5.
Jimmy Faith
Adams Director
Media Crew
6.
Simon Achin
Aomdogu Director
of Research
7.
Seyyid Hassan
Ishola Cisse Director
of Debate
8.
Farouk Hamisu
Suleiman Director
Fund Raising
9.
Ibrahim
Abdullahi Haruna Director
Marketing and Coordinators of FOSAMSSA
in the Summit
10.
Murtala Hassan Director
Contact
11.
Ahmad Lirwan
Khalifa Director
Quiz Competition
12.
Mubarak Suleiman
Jamiu Director
Refreshment
13.
Endurance Shuaibu
Abubakar Director
Welfare
14.
Salim A. Ahmad Director
Soccer Competition
15.
Salamatu Ibrahim
Mohammed Director
Ushering Team
16.
Salisu Lawal
K/Sauri Director Security (Civil)
17.
Felix Ben Gyang Director
Security (Military)
18.
Nalela Antimas Director
Protocol
19.
Mohammed Sadi Director
Human Right
20.
Ahmad Usman Sani Director
WTO Mock Summit Foundation
Others
21.
Khadija Owolabi
Yetunde (FOSAMSSA)
22.
Abdulwakil Eneji
Isah (FOSAMSSA)
23.
Salisu Umar (FOSAMSSA)
24.
Garba Bulyaminu (FOSAMSSA)
25.
Abdurrahman Umar
Daura (FOSAMSSA)
26.
Abubakar Sadiq SUG
27.
Bilkisu Mohammed
Wewo Enactus
28.
Mujibullah
Mohammed Forresters
29.
SUG President North
West University
30.
Adamu Mamuda
Saliu
31.
Abdussamad
Mikhail Usman
32.
Aliyu Abdullahi
Isiaq
33.
Adamu Tijjani
34.
Nura Jibrin
35.
Abdullahi Bala
Muhammad
36.
Angela Bello
37.
Bashir Muhammad
Salisu
38.
Abubakar Musa
Danzaki
39.
Sanusi Isah
40.
Mohammed Umar
Faruk
41.
Jibril Ishaq
Kishimi
42.
Ameen Taofiq
43.
Zainuddeen
Abdulsalam
The organizing committee plans its work to attain
its goal by dividing into sub-committees and panels whose recommendations come
to the larger committee for final decision on the issue. There are many such kind of sub-committee –
fund raising committee, publicity committee and debating committee. Others are human right activism, event
planning, security, quiz competition, etc.
The work of various sub-committees is coordinated by
the chairman and director general of the group.
There is e-secretariat to facilitate communication
Terms of
Reference of the Organizing Committee
1.
To provide
general logistic for successful WTO Mock Summit 2015
2.
To mobilize
financial resources for successful week of activities
3.
Any other thing
which the committee is assigned to do
As mentioned above that there is a plan of a
National Conference jointly with Geneva Secretariat of the World Trade
Organisation. The Resource Persons and
the Research Group are going to be selected from the Academic Staff, the
current members of the Mock Summit and ex-members of the summit.
