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#TRADE | 13 DECEMBER, 2017

UAE official stresses importance

of multilateral trading system

Al Saleh noted that MC11 must become a platform to preserve the

momentum of the WTO’s current successes.

Staff Writer, WAM (Emirates News Agency)

ABU DHABI- Abdullah Al Saleh, Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Economy for Foreign

Trade and Industry Affairs, has highlighted the UAE’s view that the multilateral trading
system has played, and still plays, an important role in opening borders to facilitate

international trade and investment, as part of a system based on its rules.

During the UAE’s speech that he gave yesterday at the 11th Ministerial Conference, MC11,

of the World Trade Organisation WTO, held in the Argentinian capital, Buenos Aires, from
10th to 13th December, he added that this system should provide a trusted and solid

mechanism to settle trading disputes while stressing the country’s commitment to the
WTO.

He explained that all efforts must continue to place a development dimension to the core

programme for negotiations while pointing out that without this dimension, the WTO will not
be able to realise many goals enlisted on its agenda.

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