16/01/06

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Welcome to new WAIPA member from the Netherlands!

We are pleased to announce that the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency has become the 184th member of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies. The Association covers 148 countries worldwide.

Do You Want to Host a WAIPA Workshop?

WAIPA is currently planning its workshop schedule for the following year. The topics of the workshops are determined through feed-back from WAIPA members. We are looking forward to receiving your proposals. Also, WAIPA members who are interested in hosting such workshops during the year 2006 are kindly requested to indicate this to the WAIPA secretariat, at the following e-mail address: info@waipa.org

The WAIPA World Investment Conference 2006, 8-9 March 2006, Geneva, Switzerland

The eleventh session of the WAIPA World Investment Conference 2006 will take place in Geneva, Switzerland, on 8-9 March 2006. The theme of the conference will be: "What Tomorrow Brings: The rise of New Players and New Forms of FDI". The official opening session will start at 10 o'clock, on the 8th of March 2006. Workshops will follow the conference on the 9th of March afternoon. Further information will be provided in the next WAIPA Mailing. We are looking forward to seeing you at the conference!