WTO Advisory Center Opens in Vietnam

10:50:42 PM | 1/18/2011

An advisory center on the World Trade Organization (WTO) opened in Hanoi on January 11.
 
The center will provide information on trade policies and issues relating to the WTO and will also receive technical assistance and hold training courses to improve capacity for Vietnamese officials under the WTO sponsorship.
 
The Advisory Center on WTO in Vietnam is the 154th facility of its kind in WTO member countries.
 
The Advisory Center on WTO is expected to play an important role in the country, especially in providing technical assistance for economic development in Vietnam, said Mustapha Sadni Jallab, head of the WTO program on Advisory Center on WTO.
 
So far, the Advisory Center on WTO in Vietnam has received 151 documents on 32 issues, including dictionaries and handbooks on trade policies, trade talks, disputes and procedures to solve trade disputes and trade agreements and trade services and statistics of WTO.
 
Vietnam became official member of the WTO in 2007. (VNS)