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The mandate of the International Task Force on Trade was to explore how the trading system can be improved to support the development of developing countries, with special attention to the needs of the poorest developing countries. Fundamental to this Goal is contributing to and upholding an open, equitable, rules-based, predictable, and nondiscriminatory multilateral trading system. The International Task Force on Trade (TF 9) was one of ten task forces comprising the UN Millennium Project, commissioned by the United Nations Secretary-General in 2002 to develop a concrete action plan for the world to reverse the grinding poverty, hunger and disease affecting billions of people. Headed by Professor Jeffrey Sachs, the UN Millennium Project is an independent advisory body. Its Report, Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals, was presented to the Secretary-General on January 17, 2005. The Report of the International Task Force on Trade, Trade for Development, can be found at http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/reports/tf_trade.htm Other related sites Millennium Project Home Millennium Development Goals website Webcast of presentation of the Millennium Project Report
to the UN Secretary-General, January 17, 2005.
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