Iraq is working to join the World Trade Organization (WTO), 29 OCT

  Iraq is working to join the World Trade Organization (WTO)

10/29/2023

 The Director-General of the Department of Foreign Economic Relations in the Ministry of Commerce, Riyad Fakher Al-Hashimi, discussed with the Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization (Sianchun Zhang) at the headquarters of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Iraq’s accession to the organization.

The ministry stated in a statement, “In the meeting, Al-Hashemi reviewed Iraq’s current efforts and its plan for the next stage in completing the technical files required to be submitted to the organization’s secretariat and preparing them in accordance with the organization’s conditions and fruitful cooperation with international organizations supporting Iraq’s accession to the organization and its quest to obtain full membership in the organization.”

He noted that “The Minister of Commerce stressed his support for Iraq’s accession to the organization, and set timetables for completing all files in accordance with the visions of the current government and in implementation of the provisions of the government curriculum and the high cooperation and cooperation with international organizations.”

 For his part, Zhang expressed the organization’s support for Iraq and his readiness to provide the necessary support for the success of Iraq's mission towards achieving accession, directing the Organization's Accession Department to organize special events for Iraq to help it succeed in its mission and complete all the files required of it to hold the upcoming negotiating rounds. In the same context, Al-Hashemi referred to his meeting with the Director of the
Accession Department at the World Trade Organization in Geneva (Mika Oshikawa).

To review the steps taken by Iraq and the Ministry of Trade to complete the technical files that must be submitted to the organization during the coming period, which will be sent by the organization’s secretariat and the accession department to member states in preparation for holding the next negotiating rounds. LINK