Kazakhstan joins WTO
Protocol on Kazakhstan’s accession to the World Trade Organization was signed on July 27, 2015 following the meeting of the WTO General Council in Geneva, says press center of Kazakhstan President.
Ambassador Vesa Himanen of Finland, who chaired the WTO working group that negotiated the deal with Kazakhstan, said that during the talks Kazakhstan had adopted over 50 new laws, amended 10 international agreements within the Customs Union.
“We have been pursuing a policy driven by WTO norms for quite a while. Kazakhstan has been removing barriers, promoting integration in the region, advancing open cooperation. A major principle of the WTO is to facilitate discrimination-free trade among its member states. The policy of sanctions currently in place does not differentiate between economy and politics, hampering trade, and does not comply with the WTO norms. Our joint task is to prevent such things from happening”, he said.