13th round of talks for Algeria's accession to WTO slated for Q1 2015

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Sunday 04 Jan 2015 - 11:58 Makkah mean time-13-3-1436 Algiers (IINA) – Algerian Minister of Commerce Amara Benyounes said that the 13th round of the multilateral negotiations for Algeria's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) is slated for the first quarter of 2015, Algeria Press Service (APS) reported. Benyounes said that “the next round will be decisive” as it is going to further advance our file and most likely we will know the timetable of our accession to the WTO, which has 160 member countries. He affirmed that Algeria’s accession to the WTO "is not an obsession" for the government: "The political decision has been made … and we must say that accession to the WTO is not an obsession but a well thought-out project." In this regard, the minister assured that Algeria's accession to the multilateral organization “is not going to sell out the economic interests of the country,” recalling that Algeria has made many investments in recent years, particularly in the public industrial sector with over $ 12 billion. AB/IINA