{"id":2007,"date":"2021-11-25T19:39:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T00:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lematin.ca\/?p=2007"},"modified":"2021-12-10T08:12:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T13:12:51","slug":"turkmenistan-formally-applies-for-wto-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lematin.ca\/?p=2007","title":{"rendered":"Turkmenistan formally applies for WTO membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"introDiv\">\n<div class=\"introTextDiv\">\n<p class=\"paralargetext\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Turkmenistan formally applies for WTO membership<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paralargetext\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala received on 24 November Turkmenistan\u2019s official application to join the WTO under Article XII of the Marrakesh Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization. It has requested that the application be placed before the WTO\u2019s 12th Ministerial Conference, taking place from 30 November to 3 December, for consideration and for a decision to be taken.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mainDiv\">\n<div id=\"mainContent\" class=\"centerCol\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Turkmenistan to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva, Atageldi Haljanov, underscored in his meeting with DG Okonjo-Iweala that the Government&rsquo;s decision, supported by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, was driven by Turkmenistan&rsquo;s strong desire to integrate into world trade and diversify its economy through WTO accession.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ambassador Haljanov noted that an inter\u2011governmental commission was established in January\u00a02013 to study the implications of Turkmenistan&rsquo;s accession to the WTO. Since then, thematic working groups have been created within the government to analyse specific issues related to WTO membership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Director-General welcomed Turkmenistan&rsquo;s historic decision to apply for WTO membership. It is the last former Soviet republic to do so. With a population of 6.2 million people, Turkmenistan is rich in natural resources, mainly in oil and natural gas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Turkmenistan was\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wto.org\/english\/news_e\/news20_e\/acc_22jul20_e.htm\">formally granted WTO observer<\/a>\u00a0status by the General Council in July\u00a02020.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2008\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2008\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2008 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/lematin.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/id4turkmaenistanWTO-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lematin.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/id4turkmaenistanWTO-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/lematin.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/id4turkmaenistanWTO-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lematin.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/id4turkmaenistanWTO-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/lematin.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/id4turkmaenistanWTO.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turkmenistan formally applies for WTO membership<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>ISSN 2564-176X Le matin canadien (en ligne)\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0 ISSN 2564-1778 Le matin canadien (imprim\u00e9)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkmenistan formally applies for WTO membership Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala received on 24 November Turkmenistan\u2019s official application to join the WTO under Article XII of the Marrakesh Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization. It has requested that the application be placed before the WTO\u2019s 12th Ministerial Conference, taking place from 30 November to 3 December, for consideration and for a decision to be taken. The Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Turkmenistan to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva, Atageldi Haljanov, underscored in his meeting with DG Okonjo-Iweala&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,15],"tags":[2985,1698,2984,746,2079,781],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lematin.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lematin.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lematin.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lematin.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lematin.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lematin.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2012,"href":"http:\/\/lematin.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions\/2012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lematin.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lematin.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lematin.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lematin.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}