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This voluntary contribution by the United States will
benefit Sub-Saharan African countries. Specifically, it
will be used to conduct technical assistance courses on
trade policy and WTO rules, and will also fund the
development of computer-based training modules on WTO
Agreements. These modules will be useful not only in
Africa but in developing countries and in economies in
transition around the world.“I
am extremely grateful to the United States for its
contribution to the Trust Fund,” said Mike Moore.
“The WTO is facing increasing demands for technical
cooperation from its members, least-developed and
developing countries, and economies in transition, and
such donations make it possible for the WTO Secretariat
to meet these requests. The United States' contribution
will help a particularly disadvantaged part of the world
increase its participation in the multilateral trading
system.”
The
WTO Trust Fund was created in 1995 to assist poorer
countries to participate actively in the WTO and to take
advantage of the new opportunities in international trade
offered by the WTO Agreements. The Fund is administered
by the WTO Secretariat's Technical Cooperation and
Training Division.
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