A letter to the Chair of APEC Senior Officials 2017
1 March, 2018
Ms Krasna Bobenreith, APEC GOS Chair
By email to: kbobenrieth@direcon.gob.cl
Cc Mr Justin Allen, APEC CTI Chair email:Justin.Allen@mfat.govt.nz
Mr Robert Logie, APEC EC Chair email: Robert.Logie@international.gc.ca
Dear Mme Chair,
We are writing on the eve of the first meeting of the Group on Services for 2018 because
we are aware that Papua New Guinea is proposing a Public Private Dialogue on Services for
August 2018 and we wish to express our strong support for this activity directly to the GOS
Chair.
As we understand it, this proposal responds to many of the issues we raised with you and
other GOS interlocutors at the 2-3 October 2017 GOS PPD in Kuala Lumpur on “New
Technologies and the APEC Services Competitiveness Roadmap”.
This is a most welcome development. We wish to reaffirm the APSC’s preparedness for
close ongoing engagement with CTI, EC and GOS officials as we continue together to build
momentum for effective implementation of the APEC Services Competitiveness Roadmap.
We understand you have a heavy agenda tomorrow. We wish you well in your endeavours
and stand ready to make constructive inputs as required. We have copied this letter to both
the CTI Chair and the EC Chair.
Yours sincerely
ABAC Brunei, Brunei Darussalam
Australian Services Roundtable, Australia
Business Council of Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea
Business New Zealand, New Zealand
Canadian Services Coalition, Canada
Coalition of Services Industries, United States
Federation of Korean Industries, Republic of Korea
Indonesia Services Dialogue, Indonesia
Japan Services Network, Japan
Lima Chamber of Commerce Services Committee, Peru
Malaysian Service Providers’ Confederation, Malaysia
Pacific Basin Economic Council (PBEC)
Philippine Services Coalition, The Philippines
Singapore Business Federation, Singapore
Sociedad de Fomento Fabril de Chile FG, Chile
Taiwan Coalition of Service Industries, Chinese Taipei