ULAANBAATAR / WORLD EXPORT DEVELOPMENT FORUM

Under the theme Diversify with Green and Digital Trade, Mongolian President Khurelsukh Ukhnaa and the Executive Director of the International Trade Centre Pamela Coke-Hamilton opened the World Export Development Forum (WEDF) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. ITC

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:15
• Production Date: 27 June 2023
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: INTERNATIONAL TRADE CENTRE - ITC
• Subject Topical: EXPORTS; TRADE
• Geographic Subject: MONGOLIA
• MAMS Id: 3065110
• Parent Id: 3065110
• Alternate Title: unifeed230627c

Description

STORY: ULAANBAATAR / WORLD EXPORT DEVELOPMENT FORUM
TRT: 02:15
SOURCE: ITC
RESTRICTIONS. NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / MONGOLIAN / NATS

DATELINE: 27 JUNE 2023, ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA

Shotlist

1. Close up, exterior, banner of World Export Development Forum 2023
2. Med shot, audience with ITC Executive Director Pamela Coke-Hamilton front row
3. Med shot, audience
4. SOUNDBITE (Mongolian) Khurelsukh Ukhnaa, President, Mongolia
“Micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises, as well as wealth creators from around the world, have played a pivotal role in the development of global trade, economic relations, and job creation. These enterprises constitute 90 percent of all businesses and employ more than half of the world's workforce.”
6. SOUNDBITE (Mongolian) Khurelsukh Ukhnaa, President, Mongolia
“It is imperative to diversify global trade and economic relations in a greener, organic, and digital manner. We must embrace advanced technologies and innovations, create new opportunities for entrepreneurs and wealth creators, enhance competitiveness, and provide equal opportunities.”
7. Various shots, audience
8. Wide shot, Coke-Hamilton at the podium
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Executive Director, International Trade Centre (ITC):
“We are here to bring the international trade and development communities together to – as the theme suggests – diversify with green trade. What makes this conference different from others is that it brings policymakers and businesses together to discuss practical solutions to global trade challenges, with development at the forefront. As our usual WEDF tagline says, we’re here to do business, talk trade and drive development. “
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Executive Director, International Trade Centre (ITC):
“By ensuring that small, women- and youth-led businesses are at the forefront of WEDF, we’re building a stronger foundation for greater resilience.”
11. Close up, Mongolian man in audience
12. Wide shot, Coke-Hamilton delivering opening statement
13. Tilt up, from laptop computers to audience
14. Wide shot, President of Mongolia sitting front row
15. Wide shot, Coke-Hamilton walking back to seat
16. Med shot, President of Mongolia sitting, next to Rabab Fatima, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, United Nations

Storyline

Under the theme Diversify with Green and Digital Trade, Mongolian President Khurelsukh Ukhnaa and the Executive Director of the International Trade Centre Pamela Coke-Hamilton today (27 Jun) opened the World Export Development Forum (WEDF) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

The theme focuses on small businesses, and how to build back from the four crises of COVID-19, conflict, climate change and cost-of-living increases.

That was the main message from the high-level official opening of the conference, organized by ITC and the Government of Mongolia, in partnership with UN Mongolia.

Ukhnaa, said, “it is imperative to diversify global trade and economic relations in a greener, organic, and digital manner. We must embrace advanced technologies and innovations, create new opportunities for entrepreneurs and wealth creators, enhance competitiveness, and provide equal opportunities.”

Coke-Hamilton said, “by ensuring that small, women- and youth-led businesses are at the forefront of the conference, we’re building a stronger foundation for greater resilience.”

She added that WEDF can help set a new agenda for small business in global trade, to reshape the world of trade into one that is more inclusive, sustainable and connected.

The opening takes place on UN Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day, which highlights the role of small businesses in driving trade-led development, worldwide. Small firms make up 90 percent of all businesses worldwide, and more than half of all jobs.

WEDF is the ITC annual flagship event, taking place for the first time since 2019. While the host and theme change every year, the focus of the conference remains the same: talk trade, do business and drive development. The theme this year is diversifying with green and digital trade.

The three-day conference covers ways to improve regional connectivity for landlocked developing countries, of which Mongolia is the second biggest; green business solutions developed by young entrepreneurs, who compete in a global pitch contest; the role of women entrepreneurs in driving sustainable economic growth; and business-to-business meetings in information communications technologies, textiles and leather, including for Mongolian entrepreneurs to connect with buyers from the region and beyond.

Now in its 20th edition, the conference is unique for bringing together the voice of small business, women, young entrepreneurs, policymakers and international organizations.