204. The Chairman said that Armenia had become the 145th Member of the WTO on 5 February 2003. In paragraph 197 of the Report of the Working Party on the Accession of the Republic of Armenia (WT/ACC/ARM/23), the representative of Armenia had stated that "[t]he Government of Armenia would apply the provisions of the Agreement on TRIPS no later than the date of its accession to the WTO, without recourse to any transitional periods". This commitment had been incorporated in paragraph 2 of the Protocol of Accession of the Republic of Armenia to the WTO (WT/L/506).
