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UAE Participates In 'G20 Trade And

Investment Working Group' Meeting

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ABU DHABI, (Pakistan Point News - 24th Mar, 2025) The UAE has reaffirmed its commitment to
supporting an open, rules-based trading system that promotes sustainable economic
development, employment, industrialisation, and shared prosperity during a meeting of the G20
Trade and Investment Working Group.

Participating in the session as a specially invited guest of South Africa, who holds the G20
presidency for 2025, the UAE delegation also expressed its support for the integration of
developing economies into global supply chains, the importance of achieving a just green
transition and the ongoing reform of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as a means of
upholding a free, fair, and inclusive multilateral trading system.

The UAE delegation was headed by Juma Al Kait, Assistant Under-Secretary for International
Trade Affairs at the Ministry of Economy, and included representatives of the Ministry of the
Economy and the Ministry of Investment.

In his remarks to the working group, Juma Al Kait said the UAE trade agenda is closely aligned
with the priorities of South Africa’s presidency, in particular the structural transformation of the
African continent and the development of African Continental Free Trade Area.

The UAE, he said, has now concluded Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreements with
five African nations – Kenya, Central African Republic, Congo-

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