The Ninth
World Trade Organization
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates and facilitates international trade. With effective cooperation
in the United Nations System, governments use the organization to establish, revise, and ...
Ministerial Conference
The Ministerial Conference is the top decision making body of the World Trade Organization (WTO). There have been twelve ministerial conferences from 1996 to 2022, usually every two years.
Ministerial conferences
First ministerial conference
...
was held in
Bali,
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...
from 3 to 7 December 2013. The conference was chaired by the Indonesian Trade Minister
Gita Wirjawan.
In this conference, 159 members of World Trade Organization agreed to the
Bali Package
The Bali Package is a trade agreement resulting from the Ninth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization in Bali, Indonesia on 3–7 December 2013. It is aimed at lowering global trade barriers and is the first agreement reached th ...
which aims to ease barriers to international trade.
[Bali Ministerial Declaration and decisions]
at WTO official website. Accessed 31 December 2013
Yemen
Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...
's agreement was also registered, dependent on the country's membership ratification.
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December 2013 events in Asia
2013 in Indonesia