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OSCE seminar in Turkmenistan promotes best practices in elaboration of national legislation in compliance with World Trade Organization requirements

3 December 2021
Presentation by Bondo Bolkvadze, an expert from Georgia, during an OSCE-organized seminar on best practices in elaborating WTO-compliant national legislation, December 2, 2021. (OSCE) (OSCE)

OSCE best practices in improving national legislation to meet the World Trade Organizations’ (WTO) requirements were discussed during an online seminar organized by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat on 2 and 3 December 2021.

The two-day event brought representatives from the Mejlis (lower chamber) of the Milli Gengesh (Parliament) of Turkmenistan, the country’s Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Justice, Trade and Foreign Economic Relations, Finance and Economy, Agriculture and Environmental Protection as well as the State Customs Service, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and other ministries and relevant bodies.

Two international experts from Georgia presented priorities for promoting international trade and reviewed WTO requirements. They discussed the removal of technical barriers to trade, tariff policy in agriculture and food, the determination of the customs value of goods, cotton trade and domestic support issues, border measures on intellectual property rights, and relevant WTO agreements, including on trade facilitation and on sanitary and phytosanitary measures.

Referring to the OSCE Ministerial Council decision on "Strengthening Good Governance and Promoting Connectivity”, John MacGregor, Head of the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat said: “This OSCE commitment gave a new impetus to the Organization's work on promoting economic co-operation, including through providing support in the integration of economies into the international economic and financial system, above all through accession to the World Trade Organization”.

He added that, over the past five years, the OSCE has significantly intensified its activities in the area of trade facilitation and promotion of the principles of uninterrupted and secure transport and transit.

This event marks the continuation of the OSCE Centre's co-operation with the government of Turkmenistan in the area of trade and transport sector development.