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July 5th, 2006

Developing countries state their concerns at end of WTO meeting

4 July, 2006
Ministers of developing countries expressed their concerns about the Ministerial meeting and the current state of play of the Doha negotiations as

As talks fail, Lamy given new role

4 July, 2006
The Doha negotiations reached crisis point when the WTO Ministerial meetings of last weekend in Geneva fell apart.

Engineered crisis? Members decided my new role, says Lamy

4 July, 2006
At a media briefing after the WTO meeting closed on 1 July, WTO Director General Pascal Lamy admitted: ''We are in a crisis.'

EU must not turn Brazil into the world's tires dump

4 July, 2006
Brazil may become the tires dump for the developed world, if WTO will accept the complaint introduced by the European Union against Brazil

U.N. disputes U.S. position on free trade's impact on poverty

4 July, 2006
Asia's poorest countries are being out-muscled economically by China and remain stranded in poverty despite a regional boom in free trade, the United Nations says.

July 1st

WTO must not force bad trade deal on poor

30 June, 2006
News that the major powers are trying to bypass negotiations in order to force through a trade deal at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has met with an angry response from trade justice campaigners.

WTO Talks Collapse ? Good News for the Developing World

30 June, 2006
The illegitimate Mini Ministerial which the WTO

June 30th

No Breakthroughs On Doha, But U.S. Officials Still Hopeful

29 June, 2006
U.S. trade negotiators appear to have made no breakthroughs in the bilateral meetings leading up to the formal World Trade Organization's Doha round negotiating sessions scheduled to begin today in Geneva

As Ministerial starts, the question is “Who will move first?”

29 June, 2006
As various WTO groupings held their own meetings on Thursday to plan ahead of the mini-Ministerial Green Room the next day, and as some Ministers gave their previews to the media, the question being asked by delegates and observers alike is “Who will move first, or will no one move at all?”