From February 28 to March 1, CLDP, together with experts from the Institute for Technical Training and Cooperation, conducted a workshop on attendance at the WTO Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Committee Meeting for food safety officials from Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Health, Animal Quarantine...

From March 18-22, CLDP will support the attendance of a delegation from the Sri Lankan Ministries of Health, Commerce, and Agriculture to the WTO SPS Committee, following an in-depth training with experts from the WTO’s Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation in Colombo in February. CLDP...

From April 15-17, CLDP, in cooperation with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will hold a meeting of the Central Asia Regional Expert-Level SPS Working Group in Almaty, Kazakhstan. This standing working group of representatives from Kazakhstan, the...

From November 13-17, CLDP will support the attendance of a delegation from the Sri Lankan Ministry of Health to the WTO SPS Committee, following an in-depth training with experts from the WTO’s Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation in Colombo. CLDP will work with participants to develop...

On October 19, CLDP, together with experts from the WTO’s Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation, conducted a workshop for food safety officials from Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Health in Colombo, Sri Lanka. After beginning with an overview of the WTO Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Committee...

From October 16-17, CLDP, together with experts from Ag Aligned Global, conducted a workshop on risk assessment, management, and communication for food safety officials from Sri Lanka’s Department of Agriculture in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The workshop focused in depth on scientific and risk-based...

From September 6-8, CLDP, in cooperation with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, held a meeting of the Central Asia Regional Expert-Level SPS Working Group in Tbilisi, Georgia. This standing working group of representatives from Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz...

From May 21-26, CLDP, together with experts from Ag Aligned Global, conducted two workshops on risk assessment, management, and communication for food safety officials from Sri Lanka’s Department of Agriculture in Colombo and Kandy, Sri Lanka. The workshops focused on scientific and risk-based...

On February 14th CLDP met with Ambassador Viorel Ursu at Moldova's Embassy to the United States in Washington, DC. CLDP's multiple workstreams, areas of future cooperation, and Moldova's transitioning government were all topics of the discussion. Ambassador Ursu will be participating in CLDP's...

On March 12-14, CLDP held an in-person meeting of the SPS Working Group in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in cooperation with USTR and USDA.  This working group meeting engaged representatives from Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and the Kyrgyz Republic to discuss sanitary and phytosanitary...