REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
PERMANENT MISSION TO THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION

Central to our global engagement – and hence our development agenda – is trade. Trade is not an end in itself, but must be a means to social and human development. Properly employed, trade policies enhance our access to a wider range of goods, services, technologies, and knowledge. More trade stimulates entrepreneurship, creates jobs, attracts capital, increases foreign earnings, and fosters vital learning processes. These are the tools for sustainable development and the reduction of poverty.

H.E. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Before an ASEAN Free Trade Area Symposium
30 May 2002

This commemorative marker was unveiled at the opening of the first premises of the Permanent
Mission to the World Trade Organization on the 10th day of October 2005 by,

H.E. Dr. Alberto G. Romulo
Secretary of Foreign Affairs
Republic of the Philippines

H.E. Mr. Manuel A.J. Teehankee
Permanent Representative

Jose Antonio S. Buencamino
Maria Fe Alberto Chau-Huu
Jose Victor Chan-Gonzaga
Lupiño J. Lazaro, Jr.
Lourdes A. Berrig
Charmaine L. Cataquis
Melagina A. Go