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WTO NEWS: 1996 PRESS RELEASES

2 December 1996  

World Trade Organization : Ministerial Conference

Singapore, 9-13 December 1996

List of participants
(As at 1 December 1996)

Members (127)

Angola

Antigua and Barbuda

Argentina

Australia

Austria

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belgium

Belize

Benin

Bolivia

Botswana

Brazil

Brunei Darussalam

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cameroon

Canada

Central African Republic

Chad

Chile

Colombia

Costa Rica

Côte d'Ivoire

Cuba

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Denmark

Djibouti

Dominica

Dominican Republic

European Communities

Ecuador

Egypt

El Salvador

Fiji

Finland

France

Gabon

Gambia

Germany

Ghana

Greece

Grenada

Guatemala

Guinea Bissau

Guinea, Rep.of

Guyana

Haiti

Honduras

Hong Kong

Hungary

Iceland

India

Indonesia

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Jamaica

Japan

Kenya

Korea

Kuwait

Lesotho

Liechtenstein

Luxembourg

Macau

Madagascar

Malawi

Malaysia

Maldives

Mali

Malta

Mauritania

Mauritius

Mexico

Morocco

Mozambique

Myanmar

Namibia

Netherlands

New Zealand

Nicaragua

Nigeria

Norway

Pakistan

Papua New Guinea

Paraguay

Peru

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Qatar

Romania

Rwanda

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Vincent & Gren.

Senegal

Sierra Leone

Singapore

Slovak Republic

Slovenia

Solomon Islands

South Africa

Spain

Sri Lanka

Suriname

Swaziland

Sweden

Switzerland

Tanzania

Thailand

Togo

Trinidad and Tobago

Tunisia

Turkey

Uganda

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom

United States

Uruguay

Venezuela

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Observer Governments (34)

Albania  

Algeria

Armenia

Belarus

Cambodia

China

Congo

Croatia

Estonia

Former Yugoslav Rep. of Macedonia

Georgia

Jordan

Kazakstan

Kyrgyz Rep.

Laos

Latvia

Lithuania

Moldova

Mongolia

Nepal

Niger

Oman

Panama

Russian Federation

Saudi Arabia

Seychelles

Sudan

Taipei, Chinese

Tonga

Ukraine

Uzbekistan

Vanuatu

Viet Nam

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Observer International Organization (49)

ACP Secretariat

Andean Group Secretariat

Asian Development Bank

Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)

Caribbean Community Secretariat (CARICOM)

Central African Customs and Economic Union (UDEAC)

Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE)

Co-operation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC)

Common Fund for Commodities (CFC)

Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)

Commonwealth Secretariat

Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)

Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)

Economic Commission for Europe (ECE)

Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

European Free Trade Association (EFTA)

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Inter-American Development Bank

International Grains Council (IGC)

International Labour Organization (ILO)

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

International Office of Epizootics (OIE)

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

International Textiles and Clothing Bureau (ITCB)

International Trade Centre (ITC)

International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV)

Islamic Development Bank

Latin American Economic System (SELA)

Latin American Integration Association (ALADI)

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Organization of African Unity (OAU)

Organization of American States (OAS)

Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)

Secretariat of the General Treaty on Central American Economic Integration (SIECA)

Southern African Development Community (SADC)

South Pacific Forum

United Nations (UN)

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

World Bank

World Customs Organization (WCO)

World Food Programme (WFP)

World Health Organization (WHO)

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)