On April 26, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a regular meeting of the Government Commission to study issues related to Turkmenistan's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). The meeting was attended by members of the Commission from relevant ministries and agencies of Turkmenistan.

During the meeting, the participants emphasized the increasing importance of active cooperation between the Government of Turkmenistan and the WTO in the context of the implementation of the Program of Development of Foreign Economic Activity of Turkmenistan for 2020-2025, as well as the Foreign Trade Strategy of Turkmenistan for 2021-2030.

During the meeting, the participants reviewed the results of the work of the Government Commission in 2023 and outlined the agenda for 2024. The participants of the meeting discussed a number of issues related to further cooperation, as well as exchanged views and recommendations on expanding cooperation with the WTO Secretariat, taking into account that in July 2020 Turkmenistan gained observer status in the WTO, and in February 2022, during the regular meeting of the WTO General Council in Geneva, the country applied for accession as a full member of the WTO, as a result of which it was decided to grant Turkmenistan the status of an acceding country (“active observer”) to the WTO.