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Ambassador Choi Hyuck (Korea)
Chairperson
157. The Chairman said the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia had become the 149th Member of the WTO on 11 December 2005. In paragraph 272 of the Report of the Working Party on the Accession of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (WT/ACC/SAU/61), the representative of Saudi Arabia had stated that Saudi Arabia would apply fully all the provisions of the TRIPS Agreement from the date of accession to the WTO, without recourse to any transitional period. This commitment had been incorporated in paragraph 2 of the Protocol on the Accession of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (WT/L/627). 158. The WTO Sixth Ministerial Conference had approved, on 15 December, the terms of accession of Tonga. In accordance with paragraph 8 of the Protocol on the Accession of the Kingdom of Tonga (WT/L/644), the Protocol shall enter into force 30 days after its acceptance by Tonga.
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