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WCIT Responds to Panel One Report

Go directly to WCIT Reply Letter
Go directly to WCIT Point-by-Point Rebuttal

News stories on WCIT response: 
Seattle Post-Intelligencer  8/22/2000
Puget Sound Business Journal editorial 8/28/00

In the following pages, you can access the Washington Council on International Trade's Response to the Panel One Report to the Seattle City Council's WTO Accountability Review Committee (ARC).

Background:

The Seattle City Council created three panels to review various aspects of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Meeting held in Seattle in November, 1999.  Panel One was charged with reviewing the invitational process that brought the WTO to Seattle.  

The WCIT Board of Directors determined there were many inaccuracies and consequent inappropriate recommendations by Panel One.  

Documented Response:

Through direct reference to the record, the WCIT response shows that both WCIT as an organization and Patricia Davis in her role as President acted in an exemplary fashion in allmatters pertaining to the invitational process and hosting of the WTO in Seattle. The major documents are the WCIT Reply Letter and the Point-by-Point Rebuttal. Both documents are accessible in PDF format as well.

List of Documents: 

Executive Summary -- a brief document highlighting the findings of the WCIT response. 

WCIT Reply Letter -- a thorough response to Panel One addressed to the Seattle City Council's ARC members, signed by the Chair of the WCIT Board.

Attachment "C" -- The Point-by-Point Rebuttal to Panel One, substantiated by references to the record.

Press Release

The WCIT response carried various other attachments as well. 

Attachment "A" is a list of WCIT members, which you can access on this site by clicking on our Membership box.

Attachment "B"  Home page of the Accountability Review Committee, clarifying its function and mandate.  Accessible at the City Council's WTO home page at (www.ci.seattle.wa.us/wtocommittee/default.htm). 

Attachment "D"  Seattle City Council Resolution 28836 congratulating WCIT on its role in the 1993 APEC meeting held in Seattle.

Attachment "E"  Letter of December 16, 1998 and attached budget

Attachment "F"  Press Release of June 30, 2000 from Mayor Schell in response to allegations against WCIT and its president

Attachment "G"  Letter to Seattle Police Department August 31, 1999 from the Seattle Host Organization

(Attachments "D" through "G" will soon be available on this site)