香港特区行政长官曾荫权在WTO香港会议上致辞_名人演说

   i cannot emphasise strongly enough the importance of the wto. it is the only international organization that deals with the rules of trade between economies. it is the rules-based forum at which 149 member economies negotiate aements and resolve disputes over trade issues.

   so i urge you to take some time during the next few days, and after the conference if you can, to look around our at city. you will see why president bill clinton once described hong kong as exhibit a in the case for global interdependence and its benefits.

   as a free trader, our support for the multilateral trading system is unconditional. and it goes back a long way. we ame a separate contracting party to the general aement on tariffs and trade in 1986. we were a founding member of the wto in 1995. our membership did not change after reunification in 1997. indeed, hong kong's continued participation in the wto, and in international trade aements under the name "hong kong, china", is enshrined in the basic law, the constitution of the hong kong special administrative region. we treasure the certainty, protection and benefits that the wto brings to our economy and community.

   we offered to host this sixth wto ministerial conference ause we recognized that it would ome a key staging post to the successful conclusion of the multilateral trade negotiations under the doha development agenda. we want to play our part in the collective effort to realize the ambitions of the round. we regard the wto members' acceptance of our offer as a recognition of our contribution to the multilateral trading system, and an acknowledgement of our competence as a world city in handling whatever challenges that may arise from the ministerial conference.

   this conference is a golden opportunity for us to demonstrate our collective resolve to improve the lives of peoples throughout the world through prossive trade liberalization. that is what we committed ourselves to do when the round was launched four years ago in doha.

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