C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire is participating in the 14th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), taking place March 26\u201329, 2026, in Yaound\u00e9, led by Kalil Konat\u00e9, Minister of Trade, Industry, and Crafts. This international gathering, which brings together 166 ministerial delegations, provides a strategic forum to discuss WTO reform, development, agriculture, e-commerce, investment facilitation, and fisheries subsidies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the sidelines of the official opening scheduled for March 26, the Ivorian delegation was received by WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. During the meeting, she commended C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire\u2019s leadership, under the guidance of President Alassane Ouattara, highlighting the country\u2019s economic performance and the strength of its development trajectory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Director-General also noted C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire\u2019s active engagement within the WTO and expressed her confidence in the country\u2019s role in contributing to the success of this ministerial conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For his part, Minister Kalil Konat\u00e9 expressed his gratitude for the warm welcome and the fruitful discussions, while commending the Director-General\u2019s expertise and leadership. He reaffirmed C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire\u2019s support for the success of the proceedings and reiterated the country\u2019s commitment to the structural transformation of its economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The head of the Ivorian delegation also outlined the country\u2019s expectations, particularly regarding priority issues such as agriculture\u2014including food security\u2014cotton, development, the link between trade and industrial policies, as well as e-commerce and investment facilitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This active participation reflects C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire\u2019s determination to contribute to reforms of the multilateral trading system and to defend its strategic interests in a changing international context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire is participating in the 14th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), taking place March 26\u201329, 2026, in Yaound\u00e9, led by Kalil Konat\u00e9, Minister of Trade, Industry, and Crafts. This international gathering, which brings together 166 ministerial delegations, provides a strategic forum to discuss WTO reform, development, agriculture, e-commerce, investment facilitation, and fisheries subsidies. On the sidelines of the official opening scheduled for March 26, the Ivorian delegation was received by WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. During the meeting, she commended C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire\u2019s leadership, under the guidance of President Alassane Ouattara, highlighting the country\u2019s economic performance and the strength of its development trajectory. The Director-General also noted C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire\u2019s active engagement within the WTO and expressed her confidence in the country\u2019s role in contributing to the success of this ministerial conference. For his part, Minister Kalil Konat\u00e9 expressed his gratitude for the warm welcome and the fruitful discussions, while commending the Director-General\u2019s expertise and leadership. He reaffirmed C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire\u2019s support for the success of the proceedings and reiterated the country\u2019s commitment to the structural transformation of its economy. The head of the Ivorian delegation also outlined the country\u2019s expectations, particularly regarding priority issues such as agriculture\u2014including food security\u2014cotton, development, the link between trade and industrial policies, as well as e-commerce and investment facilitation. This active participation reflects C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire\u2019s determination to contribute to reforms of the multilateral trading system and to defend its strategic interests in a changing international context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gucecotedivoire.ci\/pwic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gucecotedivoire.ci\/pwic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gucecotedivoire.ci\/pwic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gucecotedivoire.ci\/pwic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gucecotedivoire.ci\/pwic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9891"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.gucecotedivoire.ci\/pwic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10822,"href":"https:\/\/www.gucecotedivoire.ci\/pwic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9891\/revisions\/10822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gucecotedivoire.ci\/pwic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gucecotedivoire.ci\/pwic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gucecotedivoire.ci\/pwic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gucecotedivoire.ci\/pwic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}