WTO in a seminar in MoLT [Archives:2005/873/Local News]

SANA'A- Aug 29- The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) held a seminar for representatives of business women groups on the steps have been taken towards Yemen's accession to the World Trade Organization ( WTO) , in addition to representatives from Women National Committee (WNC) and Yemeni Women Union ( YWU).In his presentation Mr. Nageeb Hameem the head of the Communication and Coordination Office in the Ministry of Industry and Trade ( MoIT) mentioned to the preparations stages for the membership of the (WTO) started since 1998 in that term he said that we already completed nearly three quarters of our negotiation process and still one third which is the most difficult, and he added that Yemen got financial and technical support from the European Union executed directly by the German Technical Cooperation Foundation (Gtz).On other hand the participants raised the inquiries of the advantages and disadvantages that Yemen will gain from accession to the (WTO) and how could we protect the national products towards the regional and international products, and what are the impacts on the customers especially the majority of the limited incomes. Finally the seminar came out to more dissemination for the (WTO) , the trade international conventions , and the national efforts in this field.
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