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ACCESSIONS: WORKING PARTIES

List of applicants to become WTO members

(Updated December 2002)

The final Working Party on the Accession of Vanuatu was held on 29 October 2001.

Requests for accession have been circulated from Syria (WT/ACC/SYR/1 on 30 October 2001) and Libya (WT/ACC/LBY/1 on 10 December 2001). Working parties have not yet been established.
 

The initial requests to become a member of the WTO can be searched for and downloaded from the WTO documents database by inserting the document symbol in the symbol window of the Search engine.

Government Request Circulated
in Document
Date Working Party
Established

Algeria

WT/L/23

17 June 1987

Andorra

WT/ACC/AND/1

22 October 1997

Azerbaijan

WT/ACC/AZE/1

16 July 1997

Bahamas

WT/ACC/BHS/1

18 July 2001

Belarus

L7297 and WT/L/40

27 October 1993

Bhutan

WT/ACC/BTN/1/Rev.1

6 October 1999

Bosnia Herzegovina

WT/ACC/BIH/1

15 July 1999

Cambodia

WT/ACC/CAM/1

21 December 1994

Cape Verde

WT/ACC/CPV/1

17 July 2000

Kazakhstan

WT/ACC/KAZ/1

6 February 1996

Lao People's
Democratic Republic

WT/ACC/LAO/1

19 February 1998

Lebanese Republic

WT/ACC/LBN/1

14 April 1999

Nepal

WT/ACC/NPL/1

21 June 1989

Russian Federation

PC/W/26

16 June 1993

Samoa

WT/ACC/WSM/1

15 July 1998

Saudi Arabia

WT/ACC/SAU/1

21 July 1993

Seychelles

WT/ACC/SYC/1

11 July 1995

Sudan

WT/L/13

25 October 1994

Tajikistan

WT/ACC/TJK/1

18 July 2001

Tonga

WT/ACC/TON/1

15 November 1995

Ukraine

L/7333

17 December 1993

Uzbekistan

PC/W/20

21 December 1994

Vietnam

WT/L/1

31 January 1995

Yemen

WT/ACC/YEM/1

17 July 2000

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

WT/ACC/FRY/1

8 February 2001