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- ↑ "WTO - Community - Parliamentary Conference on the WTO". www.wto.org.
- ↑ "WTO - Community - Parliamentarians: Steering Committee of the Parliamentary Conference on the WTO". www.wto.org.
- ↑ Stenger, Debra P. Redesigning the World Trade Organization for the Twenty-first Century.
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