(a) Azerbaijan
(b) Turkmenistan
(c) Uzbekistan
(d) None of these
Turkmenistan has been granted Observer status (25th country) by the World Trade Organization (WTO) General Council. Turkmenistan has become the last former Soviet republic to establish formal ties with the trade body. The Central Asian country filed a request for Observer status in May and expressed willingness to trigger the talks on accession to the WTO within five years