WTO Ministerial Conference

The Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization ( World Trade Organization , in short: WTO; English : Ministerial Conference ) is has the highest decision-making body of the WTO meet at least every two years. All members of the WTO are represented, each nation has one vote. The Ministerial Conference can take all kinds of decisions as long as they do not violate the WTO's multilateral trade agreements that already exist.

Eleven conferences have taken place so far. The twelfth conference is currently planned for 2020 and will take place from June 8th to 11th in Nur-Sultan , the capital of Kazakhstan .

No.	place	country	Period
01	Singapore	Singapore	9-13 December 1996
02	Geneva	Switzerland	18.-20. May 1998
03	Seattle	United States	November 30–3. December 1999
04th	Doha	Qatar	9-13 November 2001
05	Cancun	Mexico	10-14 September 2003
06th	Hong Kong	People's Republic of China / Hong Kong	13-18 December 2005
07th	Geneva	Switzerland	November 30–2. December 2009
08th	Geneva	Switzerland	15-17 December 2011
09	Bali	Indonesia	3rd-6th December 2013
10	Nairobi	Kenya	15-19 December 2015
11	Buenos Aires	Argentina	10-13 December 2017
12	Nur-Sultan	Kazakhstan	8-11 June 2020

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ministerial Conferences. In: World Trade Organization. Retrieved December 11, 2019 .