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Article: Saudi Arabia's accession to the WTO: is a "revolution" brewing?(World Trade Organization)(Discussion)
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- Middle East Policy
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- March 22, 2006
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The following is an edited transcript of the forty-second in a series of Capitol Hill conferences convened by the Middle East Policy Council The meeting was held on January 13, 2006 in the U.S. Capitol Building, with Chas. W. Freeman, Jr., presiding.
CHAS. W. FREEMAN, JR., president, Middle East Policy Council
Saudi Arabia is unique, and the impact of its accession to the World Trade Organization is likely to be enormous. It is the only place on the planet that was never penetrated by Western missionaries, militaries or merchants. When the West finally came to Saudi Arabia, it was after the discovery of oil had made Saudis wealthy, so westerners arrived ...