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OPENING OF THE 16TH UNITED NATIONS CONFENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT THIS MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2025 IN GENEVA, SWITZERLAND: THE DRC, THROUGH ITS MINISTER OF FOREIGN TRADE, CALLED FOR SUPPORT TO DEFINE ITS TRADE POLICY WITH CLEAR TOOLS

At the opening this Monday, October 20, 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland of the 16th United Nations Conference on Trade and Development-
UNCCD under the theme "Shaping the future: achieving an economic transformation that contributes to equitable, inclusive and sustainable development" and which addresses several subjects including trade, trade facilitation, digital trade, resilience in the face of climate and economic shocks and sustainable development; the Democratic Republic of Congo, through its Minister of Foreign Trade, pleaded for support to define its trade policy with clear tools to further win several markets around the world.

In front of world leaders including the Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development-
UNCCD, Rebeca Grynspan and the Director General of the World Trade Organization-WTO, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, but also the Ministers of Trade of the planet, Nobel Prize winners and experts, Minister Julien Paluku Kahongya well sold the opportunities offered by the DRC in several sectors including mining, agriculture, energy, trade, infrastructure and tourism.

During the meeting of Ministers of G77 and China, the Minister of Foreign Trade
called on the World Trade Organization-WTO to sanction countries that demonstrate unilateralism, to the detriment of multilateralism, in order to enforce the rules governing international trade

Let us note that the Minister is accompanied by experts including Ambassador Paul Empole Efambe, permanent representative of the DRC to the United Nations Office in Geneva and Jules Muilu Mbo, Secretary General for Foreign Trade at these meetings which will last 4 days