The UAE’s Minister of Economy, Abdullah bin Touq Al Marri, recently met with senior officials from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the World Economic Forum (WEF), on the sidelines of the WTO’s 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12), held recently in Geneva, Switzerland.
Daren Tang, Director-General of WIPO; Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General of UNCTAD; and Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director of WEF, were among the individuals Bin Touq met with. Minister Al-Marri discussed the unique features of the UAE’s new economic model, plans for its next phase, as well as various national initiatives, trade and investment policies recently announced by the UAE government.