Accession Quotes

I`m very pleased to announce that agreement has now been reached that negotiations on Turkey`s accession into the European Union can and will begin in the very near future,

Agreement has now been reached that negotiations on Turkey`s accession to the European Union can and will begin in the very near future,

Western Europe GDP per capita - not taking into account the new accession counties - was lower in 2001 relative to that of the US than any time since the 1960`s.

We`re working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year.

My good friend Simeon Saxe-Coburg is the prime minister who implemented the reforms necessary for Bulgaria`s EU accession.

He expressed his strong support of Vietnam`s accession to the WTO. I think that is because it`s in both the U.S. and Vietnamese interests, and it is in the interest of the American business community,