Deputy Director-General Alan Wolff stressed that acceding governments have long made systemic contributions to the international trading system, with accession commitments stimulating rule-making discussions at the multilateral level. Speaking at the high-level opening of the Eighth China Round Table on WTO Accessions on 4 December in Moscow, DDG Wolff called on WTO members to look at the experience of acceding countries for additional inspiration in the ongoing WTO reform debate. This is what he said:
