WTO Members Approve Membership of Comoros, Timor-Leste

All World Trade Organization members accepted the WTO membership terms of Comoros and Timor-Leste at the start of the 13th Ministerial Conference this week, the WTO announced. Both nations will now send their protocols for ratification to their legislative assemblies and will officially become members within 30 days of submitting notice of ratification to the WTO. After this is completed, 166 nations will belong to the WTO, with 22 more nations seeking to join, "including a sizeable contingent from the Arab world," the WTO said.