WTO Releases Revised Fisheries Subsidies Text Ahead of July 15 Ministerial Meeting
World Trade Organization Ambassador Santiago Wills of Colombia, who chairs WTO's fisheries subsidies negotiation, submitted on June 30 a revised version of the draft text on the fisheries subsidies agreement. A ministerial meeting will be held July 15. The revised…
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text includes an initial text on the prohibition of subsidies on illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, subsidies toward overcapacity and overfishing, and specific provisions for least developed country members. “In this sense, the text should help ministers to engage on 15 July in a way that will provide us the kind of push and political guidance that we need at this stage to be able to move towards conclusion,” Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said in a statement. “I sense a change in mood, and we should take advantage of that mood to push towards concluding these negotiations.”