Comoros and Timor-Leste submit WTO accession instruments, accept Fisheries Subsidies Agreement

At a ceremony at the start of the General Council meeting on 22 July, Comoros and Timor-Leste handed over to WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala their acceptance of the WTO Protocols of Accession, setting both countries on course to formally become the 165th and 166th members of the WTO in late August. Comoros and Timor-Leste also handed over to the Director-General their respective instruments of acceptance of the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies.