World Trade Organization Interested in Cuban Mega-Port

HAVANA TIMES — The director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Roberto Azevedo, on a working visit in Cuba, will meet with executives of the Regulatory Office of the Mariel Special Development Zone, reported Prensa Latina.

The senior official of the multilateral organization met on Tuesday with Cuban Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment Minister, Rodrigo Malmierca. Today he scheduled to meet with Vice President Ricardo Cabrisas, and Deputy Foreign Minister Abelardo Moreno.

The WTO was created in 1995, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, with the purpose of regulating trade between its members on the principles of equality and reciprocity, and currently has 160 members.

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