Thousands are expected to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Saturday in Geneva, reported the Agence Telegraphique Suisse (ATS) on Wednesday.
According to the ATS, organizers expect between 5,000 and 6,000 protestors to show their opposition the seventh WTO Ministerial Conference.
The protestors, who will represent small-scale farmers and NGOs, have been authorized by Geneva's police to march from Place Neuve to the Parc des Cropettes, with the WTO headquarters as their final destination. It
will mark a ten-year anniversary, almost to the day, of the protests against a similar WTO conference in Seattle, when 40,000 people took to the streets and 600 arrests were made.
Geneva police have fenced off portions of the Rue de Vermont, where the majority of WTO meetings will take place. Police from neighboring cantons have agreed to act as reinforcements.
The seventh WTO Ministerial Conference will convene from November 30 to December 2 to discuss international trading and the current global economic situation.
The Geneva-based WTO was established in 1995 and has 153 members.