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Links to the recent communications on domestic regulation in the GATS negotiations.

India's Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath stressed on 25 April in Geneva that the current WTO talks must not violate cardinal development principles.

Several developing countries and their groupings presented their assessments of the state of the Doha negotiations as the WTO's Trade Negotiations Committee met on Monday 1 May.

The WTO's Trade Negotiations Committee meeting on 1 May and statements made by some Trade Ministers visiting the WTO have further clarified positions of some key members and groupings and some of the major differences among them that need to be resolved if the Doha talks are to progress fast enough.

Link to the Chair's reference paper on Special Products.

Links to several new papers on agriculture.

Link to the U.S. proposal on Special Products (SPs).

The all-party International Development Committee of the United Kingdom Parliament has issued a report on 27 April containing devastating criticisms of the European Union's positions in the current WTO negotiations.

Negotiations on non-agricultural market access (NAMA) will intensify with almost continuous meetings from 1 May to 16 June.

Major differences on the issues of Special Products (SPs) and the Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM) were evident at the negotiations on agriculture at the WTO on 26-28 April.