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Dear maria CHADZIDAKIS VAVOURANAKIS,
Below are the news items published today on the WTO public website which match with your news preferences. |
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| Burkina Faso formally accepts Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies |
| Burkina Faso deposited its instrument of acceptance of the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies on 16 October. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Cooperation and Burkina Faso Citizens Abroad , Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré, presented Burkina Faso’s instrument of acceptance to Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. |
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| Members explore ways of boosting developing economies’ integration into global trade |
| At a meeting of the Special Session of the Committee on Trade and Development held on 11 October, members discussed flexibilities being sought by developing economies relative to the WTO agreements on sanitary and phytosanitary measures, technical barriers to trade, trade-related investment measures and technology transfer to least-developed countries (LDCs). The discussions are based on proposals by the G90 group of developing economies and LDCs to support greater integration of developing members into global trade. |
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| Training course on market access for governments acceding to WTO concludes in Geneva |
| A week-long course on market access for goods concluded on 11 October at the WTO for 23 officials from nine governments currently negotiating their WTO accession. Participants received training on the practical and technical aspects of bilateral market access negotiations on goods, a key pillar of accession negotiations. |
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