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Columbian runs the negotiations for the accession of Iraq to the World Trade Organization
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WTO appointed chair of the action team on the management of accession negotiations in Iraq. The president of the WTO General Council, the Norwegian Eric Klein, the Ambassador of Colombia, Claudia Uribe,
Accession negotiations will be the President of Iraq. Uribe, will head the working group which will put demands multilateral trade prelude to Iraq's entry into the organization.
The Iraq to apply to join the WTO in September 30 (September) 2004, coupled with U.S. forces, making the WTO General Council approves the request next week to offer, founded in December 13 (in December) of the same year a working group to examine the conditions for accession, note that the World Trade Organization were recorded in these two shorter periods in the stages of acceptance of the application for membership of a particular country and the formation of a working group to discuss joining, in its history.
Despite the fact that working group form the end of 2004, but the team remained vacant presidency in the last two years, until the appointment of the Ambassador of Colombia Finally, a case other unfamiliar in the work of the Organization.
Iran joining
For comparison, the Iran 18 months ago to accept the papers of accession, without a working group to discuss the issue because of the lack of agreement on the appointment of the Chairman of the Group. That means, in practical terms, the lack of progress in Iran one step on the road to full membership, which requires several years at least.
The World Trade Organization rejected a request made by Iran to obtain the status of observer member (rejected 22 times since 1996), but they gained observer member status in the May 26 (May) 2005, one day after the conclusion of successful negotiations with the European Union on the nuclear file, the time agreed at the time to suspend uranium enrichment.
Iraq had submitted written answers to hundreds of questions posed by the Member States in the working group. However, the answers turn raised dozens of other embarrassing questions addressed to Iraq, focused on the administrative corruption in governmental institutions and weak governance and multiple export and smuggling and illegal exports.
Some delegations inquired about the efforts made by the Iraqi authorities to fight corruption and control of the country's resources and plans of the authorities in the field of administrative reforms and capacity-building of the country trade. Questions also addressed the agricultural system, and administrative barriers, customs and tariff policies, privatization and intellectual property protection, technical barriers to trade.
The effects of some countries opposed to the principle of Iraq obtaining membership in the World Trade Organization with the existence of two separate Jmerchetin (Customs and the Customs Kurdistan central government), what constitutes a violation of the laws of the Organization on the conditions of membership. Vodka and other countries that provide Iraq for membership, which suffers from a lack of stability, and the country from slipping back into chaos, and the inability of the government to stand on its own feet economically and militarily, with the unemployment rate up to 50% according to World Bank estimates.
But an economist, Cedric Dupont, of <Graduate Institute of International Studies> in Geneva it is the Iraqi request <Ramzi>. He told <life> :> Iraqi regime tries to seem normal state>. He added that <one of the conditions for joining the State had full sovereignty, and the government's control over its territory and its trade, economic and customs unity and the free movement of goods and persons. At the present time, these conditions may not exist in Iraq because of foreign forces and armed groups chaos and insecurity>.
The answers prepared by the Iraqi delegation <prosperity>, private under the supervision of the finance <American Agency for International Development> exclusively on helping Iraq to join the World Trade Organization. And the institution bearing the insignia of the American Agency for International Development, training courses and technical several (especially in Geneva, Washington and Amman) of the Iraqi trade officials on issues related to WTO accession.