8. Notes with satisfaction the increasing cooperation between the Economic Cooperation Organization and the World Trade Organization, including the fact that the latter has accorded observer status to the former, and the increasing involvement of the Economic Cooperation Organization in relevant forums and ministerial conferences of the World Trade Organization, and appreciates the holding in Bishkek in 2002 of a joint Economic Cooperation Organization and World Trade Organization seminar on regionalism;
8. 满意地注意到经济合作组织同世界贸易组织的合作日渐加强，包括后者给予前者观察员地位，经济合作组织越来越多地参与有关论坛和世界贸易组织部长级会议，赞赏定于2002年在比什凯克召开经济合作组织和世界贸易组织合办的关于区域主义的讨论会；