RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE GPA/W/53
22August 1997
ORGANIZATION(97-3464)
Original: Spanish Committee onGovernment Procurement
APPLICATION FOR ACCESSION TOTHE AGREEMENT ONGOVERNMENT
PROCUREMENT AND REQUEST FOR OBSERVER STATUS INTHE
COMMITTEE ONGOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT
Panama
Thefollowing communication, dated 15August 1997, hasbeenreceived fromthePermanent
Mission oftheRepublic ofPanama.
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ThePermanent Mission oftheRepublic ofPanama totheWTO presents itscompliments to
theSecretariat oftheWorld Trade Organization andhasthehonour tocommunicate theinterest of
theGovernment oftheRepublic ofPanama inacceding totheAgreement onGovernment
Procurement (1994), andinparticipating inthework oftheCommittee onGovernment Procurement.
Withaviewtothenegotiations tobeheldbetween theGovernment oftheRepublic ofPanama
andthesignatoriestotheaforementionedAgreement,theGovernmentoftheRepublicofPanamarequests
themembers oftheCommittee onGovernment Procurement tograntitobserver status intheCommittee.
The Government oftheRepublic ofPanama 'sinitial offer was submitted in
document GPA/SPEC/3.