Archive - 2005 - Article

webcast of the NGOs Roundtable forum.

Link to the G33 proposal on Special Products.

Link to EC's model schedule proposal

Hong Kong's WTO chief, who is organising a key ministerial trade summit here, was under fire for what critics say was his poor handling of a small protest by anti-globalisation activists.

The Group of 33, which represents the defensive interests of small farmers in developing countries, has criticised the US proposal on market access in agriculture as not taking the principle of special and differential treatment (SDT) seriously.

The Group of 20 developing countries has presented new proposals on market access and domestic support as part of the WTO agriculture negotiations.

A failure to reach agreement at the forthcoming World Trade Organisation meeting in Hong Kong would destroy the WTO's credibility and undermine the international trading system

The delegation noted that the WTO negotiations were again being conducted without any transparency and were excluding from the different meetings those countries that are least rich and that have most demands to make in terms of their rights to development.

Conclusions of the EU Council on WTO Doha Development Agenda during its extraordinary external relations council meeting in Luxemburg.

The Doha negotiations, which only a few months ago was characterized as stalled over many areas of disagreements among Members, are now back in motion.