Pakistan to co-host world’s Investment conference

FRANKFURT: Pakistan will co-host with Germany world’s first-ever International Conference on Investment Treaties in Frankfurt from December 1-3, aimed at examining the policy issues that will shape international investment laws in the years to come. The conference for “taking stock and a look to the future” marks the Golden Jubilee of signing of the first Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) between Pakistan and Germany on November 25, 1959 and will focus on significant changes in the pattern of movement of foreign capital, deep financial crisis, turf war over competence in Europe and the threat of protectionism.

The moot would examine the policy issues that will shape international investment law in the years to come.

Apart from Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani the Conference will be addressed by Roland Koch, Prime Minister of the State of Hesse, Hans-Joachim Otto, Parliamentary State Secretary, Ministry of Economics and Technology, Germany, Dr. Ludolf v. Wartenberg, President of the Gesellschaft zur F”rderung von Auslandsinvestitionen e.V., Wilhelm Freiherr von Haller, Member of the Management Committee of Deutsche Bank AG.