ACTION PLAN FOR YEMEN'S ACCESSION TO WTO APPROVED

SANA'A, April 19 (Saba) - The Public Policies Committee on Yemen's
accession into the World Trade Organization (WTO) approved on Monday
an action plan for Yemen's accession to the WTO at the end of 2010.

The plan includes a range of activities such as modernizing the
draft report of the ًWorking Group and the consultative meeting of
the group with the WTO's secretary and conferencing on the
agriculture and standardizing the table of goods and services and
the distribution of the draft report of the work team and the final
meeting of the team to adopt the package of accession and other
relevant activities.

The committee approved the legislative plan accompanying the
accession process and the later years until 2014.

The plan is based on reviewing about 10 laws and amending them to
comply with conventions and requirements of the accession in order
to enhance the investment environment and ensure the investments
inflow to Yemen.

The package of review procedures pointed out that there are about 5
laws being revised by the parliament after they were approved by the
government, while reviewing of the rest other laws is ongoing by the
concerned ministries and competent authorities.

The committee was briefed on the report of Minister of Industry and
Trade on the results of the 17th meeting of the Working Group on
accession of Yemen to the WTO, which was attended by 38 countries.

The report noted to the positive outcomes of the meeting and the
encouraging signs by most representatives of the concerned
countries, which confirm their support to Yemen's accession into the
WTO.

The report dealt with the bilateral technical meetings of the head
and members of the Yemeni negotiating team for the accession.

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