Over a two-week period in Washington, DC and New York, NY, 15 Egyptian commercial attachés met with various USG officials, professional associations, and private sector representatives to discuss trade promotion and policy and foreign investment issues.

On February 25 and 26, 2007, over 200 participants attended the seminar and roundtable discussions organized by CLDP in cooperation with the Financial Services Volunteer Corps, Bahrain Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the Bahrain Economic Development Board, Bahrain Labor Fund, Bahrain Chamber of...

CLDP worked with legal stakeholders in Bahrain and Qatar to develop secured lending laws allowing entrepreneurs to borrow on real as well as movable property.

CLDP held a training workshop for Omani Customs officials on the Customs Administration and Rules of Origin Chapters of the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement (FTA) the first week of March in Muscat.

A 3-day conference organized by CLDP brought together telecom regulators, vendors, and other stakeholders from 32 countries to hear the latest information regarding convergence of telecommunication services and discuss the challenges in regulation.

On April 2-4, 2007, as part of its assistance to modernize Algeria's business environment in the context of Algeria's WTO accession, CLDP conducted a workshop in Algiers, Algeria on Universal Services in the Telecommunications Sector, in conjunction with the Autorite de Regulation de la Poste et des...

CLDP conducted an Algerian program on technology licensing consisting of two phases: 1/ A four-day workshop in Rabat, Morocco, that took place in late February 2007. Based upon case studies developed by CLDP, the workshop was focused on the law of technology licensing and of technology transfer. 2/...

In June 2007, CLDP conducted the first segment of US-Saudi Arabia judicial consultations in Saudi Arabia. During this program, representatives from the Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, the US Federal Judiciary, and the National Conference of State Legislatures met...

During the three-day workshop in Muscat, Oman which was organized by CLDP from June 3 - 5, 2007, in coordination with the Customs and Border Protection Agency, Office of Textiles and Apparel, government employees from the Royal Oman Police and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry were invited to...

As a continuation of its work in Algiers in April 2007, CLDP sponsored consultations from June 9-16 in Washington, DC to equip a core group of government officials and private sector professionals from Algeria with a thorough understanding of how to develop and implement effective telecommunications...