Faizul Latif Chowdhury - Participation in International Seminars

Participation in International Seminars

Chowdhury participated and spoke in a large number of international seminars including the following : (a) 1999: International Seminar on Kyoto Convention on Customs procedures, held in 1999, in Kobe, Japan, jointly organized by World Customs Organization and Japan Customs;

• (b) 2002: International Seminar on controlling the financing of the NGOs, held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 2002, organized by the British Government DFID;
• (c) 2003: International Seminar on Child Labour in Asia, 2003, Dhaka, Bangladesh.- a delegate from the Prime Minister’s Office, Bangladesh;
• (d) 2003: International Seminar on E-Governance, organized by the US Department of State, 2003, Washington;
• (e) 2004: LDC Ministerial held in Brussels in 2004, on the Everything But Arms (EBA) initiative of the European Union;
• (f) 2005: ACP/LDC Ministerial held in Brussels in 2005, in preparation of the Hong Kong Summit (Dec, 2005) on the Doha Development Agenda (DDA);
• (g) 2006: Role of Customs in Preventing Trade in counterfeit products, World Customs Organization, Brussels, 2006.
• (h) 2007: He represented Bangladesh in the 5th Plenary of the KPCS held in Brussels on 05-8 November 2007, under the chair of the European Commission.
• (i) He attended the High Level Forum Held on intellectual property rights for LDCs held at the World Intellectual Property Organization, as a member of the Bangladesh delegation.