arh777
04-28-2005, 09:16 PM
This is a year old and I apologize if it has been posted.
AME Info March 7/2004
Interview with Iraq's minister of trade by Peter J. Cooper
http://www.odiousdebts.org/odiousdebts/print.cfm?ContentID=9708
Q. When do you see Iraq joining the World Trade Organization?
A. We have just applied for observer status, which will lead, hopefully, to WTO membership within the next two years.
Q. Wouldn't it be true to say that joining the WTO is becoming an ever more arduous task as an increasing number of countries impose more and more conditions on new members?
A. Possibly true, but there is a certain process you have to go through to achieve membership, and one of the steps is to become an observer. We also have to align our rules and regulations in order to achieve WTO membership, and that takes time. But we are reasonably confident that the process can be achieved within two years.
AME Info March 7/2004
Interview with Iraq's minister of trade by Peter J. Cooper
http://www.odiousdebts.org/odiousdebts/print.cfm?ContentID=9708
Q. When do you see Iraq joining the World Trade Organization?
A. We have just applied for observer status, which will lead, hopefully, to WTO membership within the next two years.
Q. Wouldn't it be true to say that joining the WTO is becoming an ever more arduous task as an increasing number of countries impose more and more conditions on new members?
A. Possibly true, but there is a certain process you have to go through to achieve membership, and one of the steps is to become an observer. We also have to align our rules and regulations in order to achieve WTO membership, and that takes time. But we are reasonably confident that the process can be achieved within two years.