BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 24. The International Trade Centre (ITC) remains committed to supporting Azerbaijan's export development and closer commercial integration with the EU and other Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries, said UN Resident Coordinator in Azerbaijan Vladanka Andreeva during the event on "Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade" in Baku, Trend reports.
"ITC (a joint agency of the UN and the World Trade Organization) is the only multilateral agency fully dedicated to the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with nearly 60 years of experience in providing trade-related technical assistance to developing countries and countries in transition. Today's meeting is an important step towards identifying priority issues and collecting feedback on ways to overcome obstacles and facilitate cross-border trade," she noted.
To note, established in 1964 under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), since 1968 ITC has been working under the joint auspices of GATT/WTO and the United Nations, with the latter acting through the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). ITC is the focal point within the UN system for technical cooperation with developing countries and countries with economies in transition in the area of trade promotion and export development.
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