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Lithuania offers CHF46,087 to the WTO training programme for the benefit of poorer countries

Lithuania has donated CHF46,087 to the Doha Development Agenda Global Trust Fund.

  
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This donation will finance technical assistance programmes and training activities for developing and least developed countries as well as economies in transition. The countries part of the Commonwealth of Independent States will benefit from this programme in priority.

The aim is to better adapt their practices and laws to WTO rules and disciplines, improve the implementation of their obligations and enhance the exercise of their membership rights.

This contribution will be used in the Annual Technical Assistance and Training Plans for 2006.

WTO Director General Pascal Lamy declared “I am very happy that Lithuania is committed to support developing countries and help them improve their participation in the multilateral trading system”.

Permanent Representative Albinas Zananavičius stated “ with this donation, Lithuania intends to assist the poorest countries in better understanding the WTO rules with the aim of expanding their markets”.

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