The proposition to officialise the date was led by Africa's Cotton Four or C4 — Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali — plus Côte d'Ivoire. However, prior to the UN decision, the date was already unofficially celebrated as, in 2019, the International Trade Centre together with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the World Trade Organization and the ICAC launched World Cotton Day to reflect the importance of cotton as a global commodity.

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