{"id":53643,"date":"2026-04-22T14:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/53643\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:14:10","slug":"ethiopia-reaffirms-readiness-as-wto-accession-talks-enter-seventh-round-in-geneva-ena-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/53643\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Reaffirms Readiness as WTO Accession Talks Enter Seventh Round in Geneva – ENA English"},"content":{"rendered":"

Addis Ababa, April 22, 2026 (ENA) \u2014 The seventh Working Party meeting on Ethiopia\u2019s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) opened in Geneva, marking a renewed phase in the country\u2019s long-standing bid to join the global trading system.<\/p>\n

In his opening remarks, Trade and Regional Integration Minister Kassahun Gofe expressed appreciation to the Chair and members of the WTO for their continued support in advancing Ethiopia\u2019s accession process.<\/p>\n

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Kassahun further emphasized that Ethiopia has made notable progress since the previous meeting in September 2025. <\/p>\n

According to the minister, the government has submitted more than 226 detailed responses to outstanding questions, refined the draft Working Party report, and incorporated 32 specific commitment provisions.<\/p>\n

He also announced that Ethiopia has concluded bilateral market access agreements with nine member countries, describing the development as an important step in the negotiation process.<\/p>\n

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Highlighting recent policy changes, the minister stated that Ethiopia is now in a stronger position to integrate into the multilateral trading system, supported by broad macroeconomic reforms aimed at expanding trade and investment opportunities for both domestic and foreign actors.<\/p>\n

The meeting, which is focusing on remaining substantive issues through continued dialogue, is expected to proceed into the next day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Addis Ababa, April 22, 2026 (ENA) \u2014 The seventh Working Party meeting on Ethiopia\u2019s accession to the World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[39,2016,65],"class_list":{"0":"post-53643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geneva","8":"tag-economy","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-geneva"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116448779559221936","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}