USVTC Calendar of Activities:
January - March 2004

March 28 - 31:  USVTC/USAID Study Mission on Financial Services, Budget Restructuring and Fiscal Policy
 

March 6 - 21:  USVTC and Georgetown University Law Center WTO Program for Delegation from National Committee for International Economic Cooperation (NCIEC), Washington, DC and New York, NY. 

March 17: Joint Workshop on WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism for HCM University of Law and Ho Chi Minh Bar Association by Victoria Donaldson - WTO Appellate Body Secretariat 

March 8: Workshop on WTO Dispute Settlement for Hanoi Law University by Victoria Donaldson and Jan Bohanes - WTO Appellate Body Secretariat

March 4:  Senator Brownback introduces S. Res. 311 calling on the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to immediately and unconditionally release Father Thaddeus Nguyen Van Ly,  and for other purposes.

February 21-28: USAID/USVTC Study Mission on IPR Enforcement

February 12: Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia and Pacific Affairs, hearings  on "Trade and Human Rights: The Future of U.S.-Vietnamese Relations."
U.S.-Vietnam Trade Council Testimony

February 6:  WTO Workshop for Ho Chi Minh City  Bar Association

 
February 3: "The U.S.-Vietnam BTA: Survey of U.S. Companies on  Implementation Issues" - Report & Interviews by the U.S.-Vietnam Trade Council Education Forum.  Click here to see the Report in Vietnamese (tieng viet). 
Press Release.   Related Articles. 

January 16:  U.S.-Vietnam Trade Council and Ho Chi Minh City General Sciences Library sign MOU to establish an Intellectual Property Rights Reference Collection.   Press Release.
 

January 11-16:  USVTC Congressional Staff Visit to Hanoi, Hoi An & Ho Chi Minh City