Development and Cooperation


	Contributions from the Column Facts and trends AIDS: auditors criticise Bush administration WTO disapproves of EU sugar subsidies Demobilisation in Afghanistan a success Additional funds for German civil peace service Kemal Dervis next head of UNDP New World Bank data on governance Monetary fund for Asia under preparation New leaders for WTO and UNCTAD Canada concentrates development aid The failure of Plan Colombia 06/2005		New leaders for WTO and UNCTAD Pascal Lamy, former EU trade commissioner, will become the next director general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Lamy was nominated unanimously in mid May after the other remaining contender for the job, Carlos Pérez de Castillo from Uruguay had dropped out of the race. Lamy will take over from Supachai Panitchpakdi, who was elected by the UN General Assembly in May to become the head of UNCTAD, the UN Trade and Development Conference. Supachai’s term of office at the UN begins on 1 September. The nomination of the Thai national by the UN General Secretary Kofi Annan in February met with criticism from some developing countries – they claimed that UNCTAD and WTO pursue opposing goals. Panitchpakdi takes over from the Brazilian Rubens Ricupero, who held the top UNCTAD position for ten years. (ell)