Japan Provides Funds to Help LDCs Participate in Fishery Subsidies Talks

Japan pledged to kick in more than $136,000 to the World Trade Organization Fisheries Subsidies Fund for least-developed countries, the WTO said. Set up in 2019, the fund covers travel expenses of less-developed country officials going to Geneva to negotiate over harmful fisheries subsidies. "I thank Japan for helping LDCs to be able to share their priorities," Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said. "If we are to make the WTO rule book more responsive to sustainability challenges and boost the role of the WTO as a multilateral negotiating forum, we need all WTO members to be sitting at the table."