EC Expresses Optimism After WTO Fisheries Ministerial Meeting
The European Commission believes that a consolidated text proposed by the chair of the fisheries ministerial meeting in the World Trade Organization can pave the way for the final part of the negotiations, the commission said in a July 15…
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news release. “Protecting global fisheries resources is a shared responsibility and, as such, achieving a multilateral outcome is the only way to address the issue of harmful subsidies,” Executive Vice President and Commissioner for Trade Valdis Dombrovskis said in a statement. “We welcome” WTO Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s “commitment to reaching an agreement ahead of the 12th Ministerial Conference and we are fully committed to this objective. The mandate laid out in UN Sustainable Development Goal 14.6 must remain our guide in these negotiations.”