Negotiations on Belarus joining WTO go as planned

16 октября 2019
By the end of the month Belarus will hold a series of consultations with the United States on joining the World Trade Organization. Negotiations on accession to the WTO are held according  to the schedule. Belarus has to sign the agreements with the key members of the trade union, including the United States and the European Union. But in general it is not more than 5-6 countries, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry specified.

Andrei Evdochenko, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in Belarus: “In December, Geneva will host the last negotiations on Belarus’s accession to the World Trade Organization with the participation of all interested members. In advance Belarus will hold a meeting of the interdepartmental commission on the WTO accession and a meeting with the Prime Minister to agree on the final positions for these negotiations.”

Belarus plans to complete accession to the WTO next June. Our country has been conducting an active negotiation process with the countries participating in the World Trade Club since 2016.