Marginal role of the Arab World Trade Organization (WTO)

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Marginal role of the Arab World Trade Organization (WTO)

   

Oman's representative to the World Trade Organization said that one Arab country only available on a special mission Organization (Alice)

Mohamed Pennekasm - Doha

The representative of the Sultanate of Oman to the World Trade Organization Hilda Hinai yesterday that the Arab member states of the Organization marginalize itself within this international institution, which sets and monitors the rules and laws of world trade, the hostess at a meeting of World Chambers Congress eighth meeting in Qatar that the role of the Arab Member States marginally the development of legislation and negotiations taking place within the WTO. said spokeswoman themselves in a statement to the island that the weakness of the Arab presence in the organization due to the lack of Coward Specialized has sufficient Arab delegations at the WTO, noting that except for Saudi Arabia, all the Arab member states - the 12 member - not available on a special mission of the Organization, as its representative to the United Nations is at the same time representative to WTO. noted that representatives of Arab countries do not give priority of what is happening within the organization, while the African countries and the Latin American forward proposals and ideas during meetings and negotiations Trade Organization. said Hinai it had surveyed the views of many of the students, businessmen and government officials in many Arab countries for their view of the World Trade Organization, and show her as a "negative outlook pessimistic and a lot of uncertainty because the Arabs do not benefit from the organization", which is - according to Some participants in the survey - a tool used by the West to dominate the world trade, and through the opening of Arab markets in front of Western products. "Organization politicized" and adds responsible Oman that between views that stood out from the survey that the World Trade Organization was "politicized, and it shows through the rejection of membership in many Arab countries for political considerations. " Hinai considered that the lack of Arabic language among the official languages ​​of the organization makes a weak role of Arabs, as well as failure to attendthe Arab League as an observer member.

 

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Iraq is approaching from the global economic blocs

06/05/2013 12:00 AM

Researcher specialized legislation calls for effective laws to regulate institutional work
Baghdad - شكران the Fatlawi
With Iraq near economic blocs global by subscribing to the competent international organizations to trade and support orientations to move to a free market, increased calls for specialists and experts to pass laws to help organize institutional work, which still depends legislation old has attributed a researcher at the Economic Affairs reasons for the delay Iraq's accession for the WTO to fear of developing countries, including Iraq foot on the application of the requirements to join leaving a negative impact on the economy and led to cases of recession, unemployment and a shortage of state revenue. explained researcher Accessories Akram Abdul Latif researcher oldest in the Ministry of Planning in her speech (morning) through its participation in Economic Symposium on (delayed Iraq's accession to the World Trade Organization .. of responsibility?), organized by the Iraqi Institute for Economic Reform said the recession affect the ability of the state to public spending, particularly in the fields of education, health, security and other social requirements ..
She said that Iraq can not live away from economic blocs he faces international economic structure characterized by dynamic changes and the tremendous technological developments that influenced the nature of markets and production structures and the nature of international trade.
She noted that the World Trade Organization (WTO) came with a set of requirements, which aims to liberalize international trade and foreign investment and the privatization of the public sector and minimize the economic role of the state.
She said that the reasons for slowing down the development of the Iraqi economy back to the wars experienced by the country and the economic blockade and the difficult security situation, which led to damage to its potential and competitiveness in all economic sectors, especially the financial and banking sector and the industrial sector and agriculture.
And reiterated: if we compare the Iraqi economy developments secret nature of the global economy we see that each of these sectors the main obstacles plaguing been developing solutions to these obstacles by developing plans for short, medium and long-term treatment indicating that the size of the treatment is not commensurate with the size constraints Despite the issuance of a number of laws and displacement Aat that contribute to the construction of infrastructure, services and the environment, which dealt with the areas of banking, securities and law Alastosmaralajunba and management of public funds and the central bank and agricultural initiative of the Iraqi government, which had a distinct role in the agricultural sector, but did not take a degree of effectiveness required of them in order to overlap the security conditions and their impact on economic conditions, she said.
And focused by saying that require treatment seriously Yeh in implementation and communication, patience and continue to address the constraints of each sector separately.
And senior researcher pointed out the positive and negative effects that would ensue as a result of the transition from central planning to a market economy, saying that the commitment of the member countries of the organization will lead to the application of the general rules of conduct when dealing trade with other member countries.
There is also the possibility to take advantage of the exceptions and exemptions granted by the International Organization for developing countries wishing to join to counter the negative effects of the application of the policy of trade liberalization and economic openness to the outside such as anti-dumping legislation and temporary protection for some economic activities, especially in the industrial sector.
Abdul Latif added that among the positives join trade contribute to the achievement of world peace through trade flows easily between countries which Find common interests between these countries and provided a means of constructive and fair to deal with the ongoing conflict.
They noted that the trading system allows areas to deal with trade disputes in a peaceful manner building With the growth in world trade volume could increase the proportion of trade disputes, but the multilateral trading system provides tools to resolve such disputes.
And confirmed that the greater liberalization of trade decreased cost of living among peoples Everyone consumer and what we pay in what we consume influenced by policies and free trade and protection of high-cost as that trade liberalization would remove obstacles global tariff and non-كمركية and thus reduce the cost of goods for all whether goods produced a final or ores cheaper will be included in the production of another product.
The researcher oldest in the Ministry of Planning, not forgetting the negative effects that should not be overlooked is that the economies of developing countries suffer imbalances and many many problems greatly affect its accession to the WTO and the adoption of the economies of these countries on the production and export of commodities such as oil crude, natural gas and minerals, pointing to the lack of base developed industrial able to produce various types of consumer goods, whether or capitalism This is in addition to the high volume of external debt in those countries as well as high unemployment rates.
He hinted that there are non-economic problems afflicting the economies of developing countries, including bureaucratic and administrative and financial corruption and institutional weakness and the absence of effective laws regulating the work of institutional units.
She stressed address those problems before they join through economic reform and policies are included to give a greater role to the private sector through the privatization of part of the public sector facilities and turning to the private sector.
It confirmed that the control of the public sector for decades on the overall economic activity led to the failure in the growth and development as a result of weakness and lack achieve optimal use of material and human resources, financial and Thmalha state budget burden of a large and growing with low productivity and efficiency are absent with the absence or weakness of the private sector to the presence of laws and regulations restricting him and the monopoly of the public sector for most of the economic activity, it says.

 

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Edited May 5, 2013 by TBomb