G20 Summit To Address Issue Of Strengthening Role Of WTO - Russian Sherpa

The issues of modernization and strengthening of the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO) will be addressed at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Russia's G20 sherpa Svetlana Lukash told Sputnik.

ST. PETERSBURG (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 20th September, 2018) The issues of modernization and strengthening of the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO) will be addressed at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Russia's G20 sherpa Svetlana Lukash told Sputnik.

"The task of the Group of Twenty is to strengthen the general legal framework, the general rules of the game, including in the area of international trade ... The trade agenda, in particular issues of modernization or strengthening of the role of the WTO as the key element of the international trade, will be addressed at the Buenos Aires summit," Lukash said on the sidelines of the Eurasian Women's Forum.

She noted that Russia would undoubtedly make proposals on this issue.