For Immediate Release

Jan. 25, 1999

REP. DICKS APPLAUDS DECISION
TO HOLD WTO MEETING IN SEATTLE

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks today applauded the Clinton Administration’s selection of Seattle as the site of the World Trade Organization’s 1999 Ministerial meeting.

          "I am pleased that the President, the Vice President and the U.S. Trade Representative, Charlene Barshefsky, have chosen Seattle and the Pacific Northwest as the site for this important trade conference," Rep. Dicks said. "It will add substantially to our region’s international reputation, bringing trade ministers from the various WTO nations to Seattle to discuss issues of trade policy. The exchange of ideas at this level will offer enormous benefits to our area and, I am sure, to ports and businesses that benefit from the expansion of international trading opportunities," he said.

          Dicks and other members of the Washington State delegation in Congress had written to the President and had lobbied Administration officials to select Seattle "because of its unique capabilities as a host city and because of the symbolic value as a Pacific Rim gateway," the congressman added.

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