Brussels / Beijing, 19/05/2000 (Agence Europe) - The Sino-EU Agreement on China's accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) was concluded on Friday morning and signed several hours later in Beijing by Commissioner Pascal Lamy and his Chinese counterpart, Shi Guangsheng. With the lifting of the last major obstacle, accession by the world's ninth trading power to the Geneva "club" should be the crowning success, by this autumn, to a quest that has lasted nearly fourteen years.
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