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The World Trade Organization is the only international body dealing with the rules of trade among nations. Participation in the WTO is nowadays an essential condition for every trading state. Accession to the WTO is a challenging process for an acceding country, because adjusting laws and institutions to the WTO provisions is not enough for membership. The accession process also involves specific bilateral negotiations between an applicant and any WTO Member wishing to hold them. This creates a perfect environment for the WTO Members to seek economic, as well as political interests. This paper examines the WTO accession negotiations, with focus on different countries such as Lithuania, China and Russia. The objective is to ascertain political motives of the WTO members in respect of acceding countries, and define the impact they had on accession negotiations; finally, what interests prevailed: political or economic. The paper concludes that formal accession procedures did not play an important role in negotiations with all examined countries. The WTO negotiations process and results highly depended on the political motives of the WTO Members. The crucial factor modifying Lithuania's accession process was the forthcoming membership in the EU. The European countries were politically motivated to support Lithuania's accession to the WTO.[.].

The World Trade Organization is the only international body dealing with the rules of trade among nations. Participation in the WTO is nowadays an essential condition for every trading state. Accession to the WTO is a challenging process for an acceding country, because adjusting laws and institutions to the WTO provisions is not enough for membership. The accession process also involves specific bilateral negotiations between an applicant and any WTO Member wishing to hold them. This creates a perfect environment for the WTO Members to seek economic, as well as political interests. This paper examines the WTO accession negotiations, with focus on different countries such as Lithuania, China and Russia. The objective is to ascertain political motives of the WTO members in respect of acceding countries, and define the impact they had on accession negotiations; finally, what interests prevailed: political or economic. The paper concludes that formal accession procedures did not play an important role in negotiations with all examined countries. The WTO negotiations process and results highly depended on the political motives of the WTO Members. The crucial factor modifying Lithuania's accession process was the forthcoming membership in the EU. The European countries were politically motivated to support Lithuania's accession to the WTO.[.].

The World Trade Organization is the only international body dealing with the rules of trade among nations. Participation in the WTO is nowadays an essential condition for every trading state. Accession to the WTO is a challenging process for an acceding country, because adjusting laws and institutions to the WTO provisions is not enough for membership. The accession process also involves specific bilateral negotiations between an applicant and any WTO Member wishing to hold them. This creates a perfect environment for the WTO Members to seek economic, as well as political interests. This paper examines the WTO accession negotiations, with focus on different countries such as Lithuania, China and Russia. The objective is to ascertain political motives of the WTO members in respect of acceding countries, and define the impact they had on accession negotiations; finally, what interests prevailed: political or economic. The paper concludes that formal accession procedures did not play an important role in negotiations with all examined countries. The WTO negotiations process and results highly depended on the political motives of the WTO Members. The crucial factor modifying Lithuania's accession process was the forthcoming membership in the EU. The European countries were politically motivated to support Lithuania's accession to the WTO.[.].