GENEVA: The World Trade Organization on Monday formally accepted Kazakhstan's bid to join the body, ending nearly two decades of negotiations that the WTO has called among the most challenging in its history.
Meeting at its headquarters in Geneva, the WTO General Council approved the membership terms finalised last month.
Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has led the resource-rich nation for the past quarter century, was on hand to witness the formal acceptanc ..