investment | bilateral investment treaties
17-Sep-2010
Pak Tribune
The United Sates has suspended talks on bilateral investment treaty (BIT) with Pakistan, saying that it plans to change its template, a senior official of the Commerce Ministry said on Wednesday.
17-Sep-2010
Korea Times
At an UNCTAD workshop held in Xiamen earlier this month, Korea introduced its model for preventing investor-state disputes through aftercare services.
16-Sep-2010
Dow Jones
Ecuador's National Assembly has approved a government request to end bilateral investment promotion and protection agreements with Germany, the UK and Northern Ireland. Those with Finland, Sweden, Canada, China, the Netherlands, France, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela and the US may be next.
13-Sep-2010
EuroAlert.net
The Foreign Affairs Council meeting held in Brussels on 10 September agreed on the need to put into place a common framework to develop the new EU competence in foreign direct investment granted by the Treaty of Lisbon.
8-Sep-2010
Focus Taiwan
Minister of Economic Affairs Shih Yen-shiang confirmed Tuesday that Taiwan and Japan have started negotiations on a bilateral investment guarantee agreement to step up economic exchanges between the two countries.
5-Sep-2010
Lexology
China, Russia and India considered candidates for the first stand-alone EU-wide BITs.
30-Aug-2010
A statement of concern about the international investment regime and its impacts on human development and environmental sustainability, supported by academics with expertise in investment law, arbitration, and regulation, from 24 universities across nine countries, is available for sign-on.
27-Aug-2010
Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma met commerce ministers from ten ASEAN Member States at Da Nang, Vietnam, today to review India-ASEAN services and investment agreement negotiations.
27-Aug-2010
UNCTAD
According to the UN Conference on Trade and Development, four international investment treaties were signed per week in 2009, bringing the total now to 5,900.
25-Aug-2010
Enlazando Alternativas
Various organizations and social networks in Latin America launched a Continental Campaign against bilateral investment treaties and the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes.