Press Release: WTO-Vietnam: EU and Vietnam conclude bilateral deal for Vietnam’s accession to WTO

After a week of negotiations in Hanoi, EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy and Vietnamese Trade Minister Truong Dinh Tuyen concluded the bilateral EU-Vietnam agreement for Vietnam's accession to the WTO, 11 October 2004. The EU, Vietnam's largest trading partner, was thus the first major partner to conclude its bilateral deal with Vietnam, thereby giving a boost to Vietnam's accession to the WTO.

• Primary Source

WTO: Trade Topics Gateway: Accessions: Viet Nam http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/acc_e/a1_vietnam_e.htm

European Commission: Speech: SPEECH/04/446 http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/04/446&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

EEAS: Countries: The EU's relations with Vietnam http://eeas.europa.eu/vietnam/index_en.htm

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