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France considers "historic" the achievement that the Doha conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) will formally admit China in it, French Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
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France considers "historic" the achievement that the Doha conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) will formally admit China in it, French Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
"The Doha conference will formally admit China to the WTO... France welcomes this achievement which will mark a historic stage in the integration in international trade of a country representing 20 percent of the world population," said the ministry in a statement.
"The conference will also welcome Taiwan to the WTO under the name 'Separate Customs Territory of Chinese Taipei'. France hopes that its simultaneous entry into the WTO will help bring rapprochement and stability to the region," it added.
France will send a delegation led by its Foreign Trade Secretary Francois Huwart to the fourth WTO Ministerial Conference in Doha, the capital of Qatar from November 9 to 13. French Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry Laurent Fabius will also take part in some of the work, said the ministry.
"Together with our European partners, we hope that the conference results in agreement to launch a new round of trade negotiations," it said.
France will make sure that the conference is directed at not only the development of trade but also strengthened international economic regulation, for example in the social and environmental domains, and responses to the expectations of the countries of the South, it added.
"We will be very careful that the interests of Europe and France in the agricultural sphere are fully preserved," said the ministry. "There is no question of including cultural and audiovisual issues in the talks."
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