Monday, February 15th | |
18h00 | Reception |
Tuesday, February 16th | |
9h30 | Meet and greet |
10h00 – 11h00 | Introductory session with organizers, coaches, instructors and course participants to meet and to explain the program |
11h00 – 13h00 | Instructors to introduce the five principal negotiating issues to be addressed in the simulation: trade in goods, trade in services (including labour mobility), investment, intellectual property rights; and trade and development cooperation; |
13h00 – 14h00 | Lunch |
14h00 – 16h30 | Break out into two negotiating teams and initial team meetingswith their respective coaches to plan negotiating mandates/strategies |
Wednesday, February 17th | |
09h00 – 11h00 | Meetings of negotiating teams to finalize opening plenary statements and to prepare initial negotiating positions |
11h00 – 12h00
12h00 – 13h00 |
Negotiations begin with introductory remarks of Chief NegotiatorsInitial meetings of individual Negotiating Groups under direction of their respective instructors. Chief Negotiators will meet one-on-one to discuss cross-cutting negotiating issues |
13h00 – 14h00 | Lunch |
14h00 – 16h00 | Resumption of meetings with negotiating groups. Throughout the negotiating groups’ sessions, Chief Negotiators are to meet one-on-one to discuss cross-cutting issues and/or to join in negotiating group sessions as required. |
16h00 – 17h00 | Plenary meeting to discuss progress to date in individual negotiating groups and cross-cutting issues. |
Thursday, February 19th | |
09h30 – 10h00 | Plenary meeting to go over today’s negotiating schedule |
10h00 – 12h30 | Meetings of Negotiating Groups to formulate negotiating texts in their respective areas |
12h30 – 13h30 | Lunch |
13h30 – 15h00 | Plenary meeting to consider state of draft negotiating texts and any cross-cutting issues |
15h00 – 16h30 | Negotiating/drafting sessions conclude in Negotiating Groups.Chief Negotiators meet to decide on approaches to cross-cutting issues, and to join individual Negotiating Groups to advance critical issues as required. |
Friday, February 20th | |
09h30 – 10h00 | Plenary meeting to go over today’s negotiating schedule |
10h00 – 13h00 | Plenary meeting to finalize negotiating texts & approve negotiated outcome. |
13h00 – 14h00 | Lunch |
14h00 – 15h30 | Debriefing session with participants; feedback and lessons learned. |