African Union Ministers of Trade meet to come up with a common position prior to the 11th WTO Ministerial Conference
(WorldNews Europe)

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - 19 September 2017. The African Union Commission in collaboration with the Government of South Africa organized a Special Meeting of African Union Ministers of Trade, on 18 September 2017 in Addis Ababa. The main purpose of the Informal Meeting was to enable Africa to discuss and formulate common positions on current issues of offensive and defensive interest as well as new issues before the 3rd Mini-Ministerial World Trade Organization (WTO) Meeting on 9-10 October 2017 in Marrakech, Morocco and the 11th Ministerial Conference of the WTO (WTO-MC11). The Meeting also reflected on the overall strategy that Africa should adopt in the WTO multilateral trading system in...