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11 June, 1999
FTAA - NEGOTIATING GROUP ON GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT (NGGP)
Fourth Meeting
Miami, June 8-11, 1999
PRESS COMMUNIQUÉ
The fourth meeting of the Negotiating Group on Government Procurement (NGGP)
took place in Miami, Florida on June 8-11, 1999. Delegates from the following
twenty-one countries were present: Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Brazil,
Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala,
Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, United
States of America, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The NGGP covered all issues listed on
the agenda, which is attached to this communique. The NGGP held an in-depth
discussion of the elements that might be included in the FTAA Chapter on
Government Procurement and progressed in its consideration of the Normative
Framework it has been mandated to develop. In addition, the NGGP considered
further the issue of statistical information needs at various stages in the
negotiations and the capacities of the national statistical information systems
in the hemisphere. The NGGP agreed to hold its next meeting on August 23-25,
1999.
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