Kazakh FM: Kazakhstan likely to join WTO next year

ASTANA. December 13. KAZINFORM There are reasons to believe that next year Kazakhstan will accede to the WTO, Kazakh Foreign Minister Yerzhan Kazykhanov said during his Tuesday meeting with heads of foreign institutions in Kazakhstan.

Kazakhstan continues active WTO accession negotiations. Our Customs Union partner country, Russia, is expected to enter the WTO till the end of the year. We have finished the talks with the United States and our negotiations with the EU are coming to an end.