A seminar on Iraq's accession to the WTO



Ahmed al-Zubaidi
15.01.2012
With the continuation of the debate in economic circles about the feasibility of Iraq's accession to the WTO, held in the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation, in cooperation with the Ministry of Commerce (Sunday) a seminar discussion of the definition of the benefits of the accession of Iraq, seeking since 1987 to achieve this goal, has already succeeded in 2004 to join the international organization, but membership was restricted, as it joined as an observer in the first phase, on the road to full membership. The seminar saw a difference in the views put forward by the experts, planners, and split the audience between supporters of Iraq's accession to this international organization, and another rejects it for the time the current. He sees Faleh Al Alwan, who attended as Mhazer that the accession of Iraq at this time of the organization a lot of disadvantages, for reasons including the economic situation in Iraq does not allow for the time being the fact that the infrastructure is not ready for such Transitional, as well as the industrial and agricultural sectors not qualify for that, too, as he put it. The position of the Ministry of Planning official in conformity with the views of some experts, when he called on the ministry's spokesman to wait to declare Iraq's accession to full membership at the moment, on the grounds that Iraq needs a lot of changes on the economic situation before they have full membership. and defended the Ministry of Commerce for its position, and showed the ministry representative at the seminar that the benefits Solafah Samir to join the WTO as the largest economic bloc in the world, which includes 155 countries, far more than the disadvantages.

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