Accession Quotes

While WTO accession is no cure-all, Saudi membership in the WTO,
under the rigorous terms we have negotiated, could have a lasting
effect on transforming the Saudi economy away from its over-dependence
on oil revenues and addressing the growing unemployment problems in
the kingdom. - Rob Portman

While China is making noteworthy progress in opening markets since its WTO accession, there have been restrictive shifts as well. - Forrest Miller

Western Europe GDP per capita - not taking into account the new accession counties - was lower in 2001 relative to that of the US than any time since the 1960's. - John Hutton

We're working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year. - Nursultan Nazarbayev

We'd like to see Vietnam's WTO accession finalized by the end of the year, preferably by the end of November. That's a pretty vigorous timetable. - Matthew Daley

We would welcome it as another step on the road to Chinese accession to the WTO. - Anthony Gooch

We have just made history... We've had the first ministerial meeting on the opening of accession negotiations. - Jack Straw

We have just made history, ... We've had the first ministerial meeting on the opening of accession negotiations. - Jack Straw

We have concluded the WTO accession talks with Armenia and Columbia. - Arseniy Yatsenyuk

We have agreed with a number of WTO partners that after all negotiations [on Russia's accession] have been concluded, we will not enter new talks [with world car manufacturers]. - German Gref