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“THE WTO IS NOW AT YOUR FINGERTIPS” – SAYS MIKE MOORE AT THE LAUNCH
OF THE NEW ON-LINE DOCUMENTS DATABASE
Greater public access to the World Trade Organization (WTO) will be possible with the
launch on 1 February 2001 of a new document database accessible through the Organization's recently
re-designed website at www.wto.org.
“The WTO is now at your fingertips,” said WTO Director-General Mike Moore. “With over
100,000 official documents in English, French and Spanish, the new on-line database is part of theongoing efforts to make the Organization more accessible and to make its work more transparent for a
worldwide public. Anyone interested in international trade will find the new database an invaluable
tool in their search for a deeper understanding of the WTO.”
The WTO website attracts an average of 250,000 users per month from over 160 countries.
These users download thousands of documents and data from the site. The new on-line database has
been designed specifically to further enhance user-friendliness, offering faster and more efficient tools
to search for, and download, WTO documents, including Member Governments’ proposals and
official records of meetings.
New documents will be added to the database on a daily basis, continually supplementing the
wide range of explanatory material av ailable on the WTO website as a whole.