Taiwan offers 200,000 USD to help developing countries participate in Doha Round

Chinese Taiwan announced Wednesday to donate 200,000 U.S. dollars to the Doha Development Agenda Global Trust Fund at the 9th World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference in Bali, Indonesia.

This donation brings Taiwan's contribution since 2002 to nearly 2 million U.S. dollars.

This donation will finance a wide range of trade-related technical assistance activities, aiming at helping developing and least-developed countries (LDCs) to strengthen the effectiveness of their participation in the Doha Round.

"I welcome Chinese Taipei's donation to enhance the participation of developing countries in the Doha Development Round and the work of the WTO. This generosity will help developing countries to make full use of the multilateral trading system," said WTO Director-General Roberto Azevedo.

The WTO kicked off its 9th ministerial conference on Tuesday afternoon in the Indonesian resort island of Bali, struggling to revive the long-stalled Doha Round by reaching a possible trade deal at the four-day meeting.

Trade chiefs of the WTO's 159 members is working to break trade impasses and finalize a package of global trade agreements that mainly cover trade facilitation, development and agriculture, in a bid to pave the way for future completion of the Doha Round.