"We have concluded the WTO accession talks with Armenia and Columbia," Arseniy Yatsenyuk said, adding that there have also been positive developments in the negotiations with Australia.
The minister said that the country's hopes about accelerating the negotiating process after it signed a bilateral agreement with the United States had materialized.
A presidential administration official previously said that the country could complete talks on joining the body governing global trade as early as at the end of March 2006.
Ukraine has signed protocols with the majority of WTO members, including with the United States on March 2, on mutual access to commodities and services markets. In mid-February, the U.S. granted it market economy status after the European Union declared Ukraine a market economy at the end of 2005.
