The final meeting of the Working Group, which officially announced the completion of negotiations on Kazakhstan’s accession to The World Trade Organization (WTO) was held on June 22, 2015, in Geneva. Kazakhstan submitted its initial application on January 29, 1996, but it took nearly two decades to finalize accession talks on joining the WTO. Kazakhstan will officially become the 162nd member of the WTO at the 10th Ministerial Conference of the WTO in Kenya on December 15-19, 2015. Until this date, some formalities about the process still need to be settled.