The Azerbaijani government has sent new proposals - responses to questions of WTO member states within the framework of negotiations on joining the World Trade Organization (WTO), said Mahmud Mammadguliyev, Deputy Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan.

Authorities of Uzbekistan have prepared a memorandum on the foreign trade regime for accession into the World Trade Organization (WTO), Trend reports with reference to the press service of Uzbek Ministry of Investment and Foreign Trade.

The World Trade Organization is using an “out-of-date” playbook despite dramatic changes including the rise of China and the evolution of the internet, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said in testimony to Congress on Tuesday, Trend reports referring to Reuters.

The Uzbek delegation discussed the issues of promoting the process of country's accession to WTO at Russian Ministry of Economic Development, Trend reports via Uzbek media.

Deputy Director General of the World Trade Organization Alan Wolff stated that Uzbekistan can join the World Trade Organization within two years, Trend reports via Uzbek media.

Deputy Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Alan Wolff will visit Uzbekistan on February 19-20, Trend reports with reference to the Uzbek Foreign Ministry.

The Ambassador of Uzbekistan to Belgium Dilyor Khakimov has met with Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WTO) Kunio Mikuriya in Brussels, UzDaily.uz reported.

Jovan Jekic, an expert in international trade law, has been appointed advisor to the minister of foreign trade of Uzbekistan on accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), Uzbek media reported.

"Kazakhstan will play a host to the 12th WTO's ministerial conference to be held in June, 2020," Kazakhstan's Permanent Representative to WTO Zhanar Aitzhanova told journalists on the margins of the high-level forum underway in Astana, "Kazinform" reports.

The investment climate in Kazakhstan was highly appreciated by Director General of the World Trade Organization Robert Azevedo who addressed the international forum on the Promotion of Trade Facilitation and Investment for Development held in Astana.