(Bali) – The United Arab Emirates represented by H.E. Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, UAE Minister of Economy, yesterday had two separate meetings with Switzerland’s Chief of Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Johann Schneider-Ammann, on the margins of the 9th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation, which started in the Indonesian island of Bali.
At the meeting, Al Mansouri underscored the need for the current WTO ministerial meeting to come up with a balanced agreement between developed countries and developing countries on the items on the agenda of the multilateral talks between the 159 members of WTO, as well as to draw a path for talks after Bali.
The two sides also discussed the agenda of the current WTO ministerial meeting and ways of enhancing trade between the UAE and Switzerland in sectors such as banking, pharmaceutical industry and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs).