Article: Cambodia Enters Last Lap toward Joining WTO.

By Woranuj Maneerungsee, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 18--Cambodia's drive to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has entered its final phase after a meeting in Geneva.

The WTO Accession Working Party and Phnom Penh said on Thursday that they aimed to complete membership arrangements before the WTO Ministerial Conference in Mexico in September.

That could make Cambodia the first least-developed country to join the WTO, which was formed in 1995.

Srirat Rastapana, the deputy director-general of the Department of Trade Negotiations, said in Bangkok that Cambodia's entry to the WTO would help its ...

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