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(From Arabies Trends)
Byline: John Siciliano Washington
For nearly a year, Saudi Arabia's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been a hot issue not only for the Saudis, but also for the Bush administration, which sees a strategic benefit from having the Gulf's largest state as a member of the world's largest trade organization.
Yet optimism was not always plentiful. During last September's 2003 WTO meeting in Cancun, Mexico, an observing Saudi delegation could not have been impressed by members' inability to come to an agreement on goals set out in Qatar the previous year. However, both Washington and Geneva were adamant that ...