{"id":1148,"date":"2026-03-31T15:16:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missions.grz.gov.zm\/geneva\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:22:25","slug":"the-14th-world-trade-organisation-wto-ministerial-conference-concludes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missions.grz.gov.zm\/geneva\/?p=1148","title":{"rendered":"The 14th World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial Conference Concludes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>31\/03\/2026 \u2013 The 14<sup>th<\/sup> World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference, concluded in the early hours of 30<sup>th<\/sup> March, 2026 in Yaound\u00e9, Cameroon. The WTO Ministerial Conference brought together Ministers responsible for trade from WTO Member States to deliberate on key issues and rules affecting the global trading system.<\/p>\n<p>At the 2026 session of the Ministerial Conference, Ministers of Trade adopted decisions on Fisheries Subsidies, on improving the integration of small economies into the multilateral trading system, and on enhancing the precise, effective and operational implementation of special and differential treatment provisions in the Agreements on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) and Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT).<\/p>\n<p>Further work on outstanding issues will be undertaken in Geneva as part of the Yaound\u00e9 package so as not to lose the progress made on draft texts relating to WTO Reform and the Work Plan, E-Commerce, TRIPS Non-Violation and Situation Complaints, and the least developed country (LDC) package.<\/p>\n<p>In closing the Meeting, Hon. Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana, Minister of Trade of Cameroon and Chairperson of MC14 appreciated the efforts of Ministers and delegations for the achievements at the Conference. He encouraged members to continue deliberations on outstanding issues in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>Hon. Chipoka Mulenga, M.P., Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry was represented at MC-14 by Mrs. Lillian Bwalya, Permanent Secretary for Trade at the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry. The delegation included Amb. Eunice M.T Luambia, Permanent Representative of Zambia to the United Nations Office in Geneva as well as officials from relevant line Ministries and Agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Issued by:<\/p>\n<p>The Permanent Mission of Zambia in Geneva<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>31\/03\/2026 \u2013 The 14th World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference, concluded in the early hours of 30th March, 2026 in Yaound\u00e9, Cameroon. The WTO Ministerial Conference brought together Ministers responsible for trade from WTO Member States to deliberate on key issues and rules affecting the global trading system. At the 2026 session of the Ministerial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geneva-trade-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missions.grz.gov.zm\/geneva\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missions.grz.gov.zm\/geneva\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missions.grz.gov.zm\/geneva\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missions.grz.gov.zm\/geneva\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missions.grz.gov.zm\/geneva\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/missions.grz.gov.zm\/geneva\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"https:\/\/missions.grz.gov.zm\/geneva\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/1152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missions.grz.gov.zm\/geneva\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missions.grz.gov.zm\/geneva\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missions.grz.gov.zm\/geneva\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missions.grz.gov.zm\/geneva\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}