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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7958

5 May 2001
Contents Publication in full By article 23 / 43
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/wto
Saudi Arabia does not want to sacrifice its Islamic "specificities" on alter of free trade

Brussels, 04/05/2001 (Agence Europe) - Saudi Arabia refuses to renounce its Islamic "specificities" to be able to join the World Trade Organisation indicated the Trade Minister Oussama Faquih in his statements published in the national press. While wanting to open to world trade, we must affirm that there are goods, activities and services prohibited by Islam, which as a result cannot be introduced into Saudi Arabia, he said to the Okaz newspaper. Mr Faquih felt that the trade partners of...

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