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ORGANIZATIONWT/MIN(01)/ST/144
12 November 2001
(01-5750)
MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE
Fourth Session
Doha, 9 - 13 November 2001Original:  English
UKRAINE
Statement by H.E. Mr Andrii Goncharuk
First Deputy State Secretary, Ministry of Economy and European Integration
(Speaking as an Observer)
Let me begin my statement by thanking our hosts, authorities of the State of Qatar, and the
organizers of this Conference for their great commitment.
1. The Government of Ukraine considers the World  Trade Organization to be a fundamental part
of the architecture of international legal relations providing for the stable development of international
trade and of the world economy as a whole.  The WTO system grants to its Members wide-rangingtrade and economic rules and a system of legal protection of economic interests.  The presentation,
strengthening and improvement of the WTO system are preconditions for the further foreseen and
stable development of the world economy.
2. Ukraine, as an active participant in world trade, observes very attentively the process of
broadening the scope of the WTO.  We welcome the completion of negotiations on accessions
announced at this Conference and believe that the  new WTO Members will strengthen the multilateral
system.  We join with sincerity all countries of the world in their aim to the global WTO membership.
3. The process of negotiating documents to be approved by the Fourth Ministerial Conference
has once again showed that participation in the WTO activities is a basis for the balanced economic
development of all countries.  WTO has become a leading factor is providing economic safety in the
system of international economic relations.  In the new conditions of globalization of political and
economic processes WTO and its Members have ever greater  responsibility in the preparation and
adoption of common decisions, which would provide for mutual efforts to ensure the social and
economic well-being  of all counties and to prevent the threat of new conflicts on the world scale.
4. The integration of Ukraine, as of any other country in transition into a more open and rule-
based multilateral trade system will provide for a new impulse in its economic development.  The
legal basis of the WTO Agreements regulating the trade  aspects of agriculture, services, intellectual
property and other  areas, ensures for the  dynamic economic development, which is crucially import
for putting froward the economic reforms in Ukraine.   Taking into account the geographical location
of Ukraine in  the centre of Europe, we also realize the importance of our participation is regional
economic formations which supplement the multilateral trade liberalization process within the
framework of WTO.
5. Let me briefly inform you about the latest trends in Ukraine's economic development and the
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During the last  two years the Ukrainian economy grew considerably.  For the first nine
months of the current year, GDP was 9.3 per cent above the same period  of the  previous year.  The
comparable figures of industrial output and agricultural production are 16.6 per cent and 8.6 per cent
respectively.  The real incomes of the population were 8.6 per cent higher  than during the same period
a year earlier, while inflation grew only at 3.7 pe r cent compared to 21.6 per cent in the relevant
period of the previous year.
6. The two meetings of the Working Party on Ukraine's Accession to the WTO that have taken
place since the previous Ministerial Conference, showed significant progress in the harmonization of
Ukrainian trade-related legislation with the WTO Agreements.  We have also achieved considerable
progress is our bilateral negotiations on market access:  as of today, three protocols have been signed
and a broad political agreement has been reached with a majority of Working Party members on theissues, which require mainly technical solutions.
7. To conclude, I would like to stress that Ukraine sincerely supports the necessity of further
strengthening of WTO, the beginning of a new round of negotiations, and wishes to become a full
member in this process.  At the same time, we expect that, by itself, the discussion of problems of
ensuring balanced development will become an integral part of the process of further world tradeliberalization.
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