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Article: Cambodia Expects WTO Membership Next Year
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- December 16, 1996
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Cambodian Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh expects his country to
join the World Trade Organization (WTO) by the end of 1997, a local
newspaper reported today.
The English-language Cambodia Daily quoted Cham Prasidh as saying
Sunday that "Cambodia will enter the WTO after the country joins the
ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and we expect to
be a member (of the WTO) by the end of next year."
The minister made the remarks after attending last week's four-
day
ministerial meeting in Singapore of the 120-member international
organization, of which Cambodia is an official observer.
"If we are late to join the World Trade Organization, we are left
alone in trade," said the ...