Japan may contribute 1.5 million Swiss francs -- about 117 million yen -- to a new trust fund established within the World Trade Organization to increase trade-related technical assistance for developing countries, government sources said Friday.
The funding plan for the Doha Development Agenda Global Trust Fund was proposed recently by the Foreign Ministry to the Finance Ministry amid preparations for a contribution-pledging conference in Geneva on March 11, the sources said.
The trust fund was established within the WTO -- the Geneva-based watchdog for international commerce -- under an agreement reached at a WTO ministerial meeting in Doha, Qatar, in early November.