To the issue on the international legal status of the World Trade Organization

• Main Author: I A Shulyatyev
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2009-12-01
• Series: RUDN Journal of Law
• Subjects: международный форум с институциональными характеристиками; правоспособность; организационная структура; Генеральный директор ВТО; Секретариат ВТО; консенсус; концепция «WTO is member-driven; мировой экономический порядок
• Online Access: http://journals.rudn.ru/law/article/view/5719
• ISSN: 2313-2337; 2408-9001

The article is devoted to the issue of WTO's legal status and concerning with it particular qualities of organizational structure, which is covered by Marrakesh Declaration of 15 April 1994.The conception «WTO is member-driven, with decisions taken by consensus among all member government» is offered as a methodological approach to the study of problems of WTO's functioning as an international intergovernmental organization.