SUNS  4362 Thursday 28 January 1999

Geneva, 26 Jan (TWN) -- The United States has now picked on Seattle as the site for the 3rd Ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization (to be held 30 November to 3 December 1999).
The announcement about Seattle as the site was announced in Washington by the US Trade Representative, Mrs. Charlene Barshefsky.

The United States Information Service bulletin in Geneva in reporting this quoted Barshefsky as saying that the meeting "will launch global negotiations to further open markets in goods, services, and agriculture trade."