To hold the next meeting of the working group on Uzbekistan's accession to the World Trade Organization before the end of the year, the country must submit to the WTO secretariat answers to additional questions of the organization's member countries and documents updated in accordance with requests, including on technical regulation and intellectual property.
This was discussed at a regular meeting of the interdepartmental commission for work with the WTO, the Ministry of Investments and Foreign Trade reported.
Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade Jamshid Khodjaev gave the members of the interdepartmental commission "strong instructions to expedite the process of Uzbekistan's accession to the WTO", while he emphasized the inadmissibility of delaying the deadlines.
The process of Uzbekistan's accession to the WTO resumed after an almost 15-year break in 2020. At the end of June this year, the fifth meeting of the working group was held, where negotiations began between the Uzbek side and the WTO member countries on the conditions for joining the organization.
Sardor Umurzakov, then Deputy Prime Minister and head of the MIFT, noted during that meeting that the negative consequences of the pandemic made the process of joining the organization more difficult. He called on the WTO member countries to be more flexible and assured that Uzbekistan intends to complete the accession process as soon as possible.
