Archive - 2005

September 8th

WTO: Some Tough Questions for the G20

7 September, 2005
there are some tougher questions that the G20 Ministers are unlikely to address, yet they are even more critical for the interests of the developing world as a whole

September 7th

Proposal for Busan International People's Forum

Proposal for an International People's Forum in Busan, Korea alongside the Busan APEC summit meeting on November 2005.

September 6th

Lamy calls for special WTO Ag mtg next Tuesday

5 September, 2005
Lamy has summoned agriculture negotiators to a meeting next Tuesday on the Doha round

Mini-ministerial meeting to be held in Paris

5 September, 2005
Mini-ministerial meeting to be held in Paris at end of month in preparation for December's ministerial meeting in Hong Kong

EU-Mercosur agree new route map

5 September, 2005
Mercosur and the European Union decided in Brussels to resume the interrupted talks.

September 5th

Mercosur-EU negotiators meeting at Ministerial Level

4 September, 2005
Ministers reaffirmed the importance of the strategic relationship between Mercosur and the EU.

September 2nd

Hong Kong Is the ?Priority? - Lamy

1 September, 2005
Pascal Lamy yesterday declared that the sixth ministerial meeting in Hong Kong set for mid-December remains his 'priority number one'

September 1st

Focus on Trade, No 113, Part 2

31 August, 2005
Title

A Declaration of War

31 August, 2005
'The U.S. proposal package is designed to force the world to accept as its own the U.S. strategy of abandoning impoverished nations and peoples, rejecting international law, privileging ruthless market forces over any attempted regulation, sidelining the role of international institutions except for the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO, and weakening, perhaps fatally, the United Nations itself.'

August 31st

G20: Not representing farmers interests

30 August, 2005
Response to the G20 Ministerial Meeting in Pakistan (8-10 September 2005)