U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross: "One of the most significant goals of market reforms is Uzbekistan’s accession to the World Trade Organization. We strongly support this effort and look forward to the government’s response to questions from the WTO’s Memorandum of Foreign Trade Regime. At the same time, we encourage our Uzbek partners to carefully consider the impact of new agreements on WTO accession. For example, pursuing membership right now in the Eurasian Economic Union could complicate and extend the WTO accession process beyond the timeline set by Uzbekistan’s leaders." - Washington, Oct 22, 2019
