end, says official 2 Jeddah" as no.5. The item with the corrected number follows: SPA-5-economic/Saudi Arabia expected to join WTO by the year-end, says official 2 Jeddah Al-Alami noted that the most significant issues the Kingdom will discuss with the US pertain to services, trade exchange and exchange of information through the Internet. He said 148 member states control 89 percent of the world's trade in addition to 90 percent of the investment operations and 91 percent of IT, stressing that the Kingdom will abide by the organization's 28 agreements even before joining it. Al-Alami indicated that the Saudi negotiating team comprised 500 experts from various ministries and of them 23 directly led the negotiations.
