Archive

October 18th, 2005

NGOs Roundtable Forum: images

17 October, 2005
Photos taken during the WTO NGOs Roundtable Forum.

G33 proposal on Special Products

17 October, 2005
Link to the G33 proposal on Special Products.

EU Council conclusions on WTO DOHA Development Agenda

17 October, 2005
Conclusions of the EU Council on WTO Doha Development Agenda during its extraordinary external relations council meeting in Luxemburg.

EU makes procurement part of benchmarking proposal

17 October, 2005
Link to EC's model schedule proposal

G33 submits proposal on indicators for special products

17 October, 2005
he Group of 33 developing countries that operates in the WTO's agriculture negotiations has formally submitted a proposal on indicators for the designation of special products.

Delegation of the European Parliament's Left condems European negotiators' obsession with market access at the WTO

17 October, 2005
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.

Geneva Update No. 2

17 October, 2005
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.

G33 criticises agriculture process and US proposal

17 October, 2005
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.

G20 proposals on market access, domestic support

17 October, 2005
The Group of 20 developing countries has presented new proposals on market access and domestic support as part of the WTO agriculture negotiations.

October 17th

Rocky start to WTO dialogue

16 October, 2005
Protesters swarmed WTO director- general Pascal Lamy's car outside Hong Kong University Sunday in what could be a sign of things to come between anti-globalization protesters and free-trade proponents.