WTO’s 12th Ministerial Conference to gather trade ministers from 164 states in Nur-Sultan
Kazakhstan plays host to the 12th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation on 8-11 June this year, the Strategy2050.kz correspondent reports.
The conference is to rally trade minister from 164 member countries for discussing the current agenda in global trade and finding solutions to the existing trade issues.
The impending conference is about to focus on one of the pressing issues facing the WTO – the organisation’s transformation – in order to respond the recent global happenings.
“The ministerial conference is a high body of the WTO, entitled to take decisions of high importance in global trade that could influence the global markets,” the Kazakh foreign ministry’s spokesperson, Aibek Smadiyarov, said at a briefing with journalists.
It should be noted that the World Trade Organization was created at the conference in Marrakesh in April 1994 by the Agreement on establishment of the WTO.
Kazakhstan sent a formal application for accession to the WTO Secretariat on 26 January 1996 and on 30 November 2015 our country had become the 162nd WTO member.
The WTO Ministerial Conference meets at least once every two years.
It should be mentioned that the 11th WTO Ministerial Conference was held on December 11, 2017, in Buenos Aires.
164 WTO members and 20 observer countries are expected to participate in the 12th Ministerial Conference, and the total number of participants will exceed 4,000 people.
By Adlet Seilkhanov
