MoCI organises ‘National Workshop on Commercial Negotiations’

The Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI), in co-operation with the International Commercial Training Institute of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), organised on Tuesday the ‘National Workshop on Commercial Negotiations’, which will conclude tomorrow.

The participating entities in the workshop includes MoCI, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), the Ministry of Municipality, QatarEnergy, the General Authority of Customs, and the Qatar Central Bank.

The four-day workshop will illustrate the basic skills of commercial negotiating, proper preparation before entering negotiations, and proper implementation of those skills in a way that guarantees achieving goals determined through many interactive practical applications and exercises between the experts and participants.

Saleh bin Abdullah al-Mana, head of the International Co-operation and Trade Agreements Department at MoCI and president of the National Co-ordination Committee of World Trade Organisation Affairs, said the workshop is part of the ministry’s efforts to develop government employees and improve their negotiating skills within an aspirational vision to our national economy.

He noted that the workshop is pursuing the comprehension and mastery of commercial negotiation skills to uplift negotiations that will lead to agreements of mutual and joint interests both regionally and globally.

Al-Mana said the fourth ministerial conference of the WTO held in Doha in 2001 represents a constructive developmental turn in WTO’s new path, noting that the announcement emerging from the conference recognised that all countries shall benefit from opportunities and welfare gains that the multilateral commercial system achieve.

He said Doha’s declaration recognises the provision of technical aid to developing countries to develop their skills in commercial exchange negotiations. The workshop falls within technical aid and liberation of commercial exchange, whether within WTO’s agreements or within regional agreements.

If properly used nationally and internationally, it will consist of an effective tool to contribute to fair growth amongst countries and sustainable social and economic development on the national level, al-Mana added.

The workshop is also part of MoCI’s efforts to organise technical cooperation activities that aim to support building capabilities, deepen government employees understanding of the Doha negotiations round at the WTO, and build and improve the negotiation skills of Qatar’s commercial negotiators and specialists.